Posted on 03/17/2021 2:15:28 PM PDT by magna carta
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled unconstitutional a national moratorium the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has instituted for most residential evictions to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Siding with a group of landlords and property owners challenging the evictions freeze, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker in Tyler, Texas, ruled the CDC exceeded its authority under the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution.
“The court concludes that the federal government’s Article I power to regulate interstate commerce and enact laws necessary and proper to that end does not include the power to impose the challenged eviction moratorium,” Barker wrote.
The judge, appointed to the bench in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump, added: “Although the COVID-19 pandemic persists, so does the Constitution.”
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Apparently the judge did not issue a nationwide injunction preventing further exercise of the rule.
Otherwise we’d have ‘journalists’ jumping off buildings. And commies burning down entire cities.
It is about time!!! The government, at every level, surpassed their constitutional authority by a mile and it is about time they were jerked up short and held accountable.
This was a communist move to assume economic power over the people to further hold them hostage to the governments whims.
Our victories will be small over the next 4-8-12-Forever years.
Let’s take them when we can. :)
The head of the CDC does not even need Senate confirmation! Zero authority whatsoever to do this.
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