Democrats Slam Supreme Court’s Eviction Moratorium Decision – By Joseph Klein (Front Page Mag) / Aug 31 2021
Why Pelosi and her fellow Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves.
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced the Supreme Court for ruling that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) had exceeded its statutory authority when it unilaterally issued its latest moratorium order regarding evictions of tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC had done so following the expiration of its previous moratorium order.
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision, issued on August 26, 2021, was in response to an application for emergency relief by a group of realtors and rental property managers.
“If a federally imposed eviction moratorium is to continue,” the eight-page unsigned majority opinion declared, “Congress must specifically authorize it.” The three more liberal Supreme Court justices dissented.
Pelosi accused the Supreme Court of “immorally” ripping away relief for beleaguered tenants in “a ruling that is arbitrary and cruel.” Pelosi added that “Congressional Democrats have not and will not ever accept a situation of mass evictions.”
