Landlord Group Sues Biden's CDC Over Eviction Ban Extension

Newsmax ^ | 04 August 2021 | Eric Mack

[george76]

Landlord groups are suing the Biden administration for extending the pandemic eviction moratorium from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, claiming the new order can only be extended by new legislation, as ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Alabama and Georgia associations of Realtors filed an emergency motion Wednesday night with Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asking her to enforce the Supreme Court's recent order stating that the CDC could not extend the moratorium without new legislation.

The Alabama Association of Realtors said the CDC issued the new order "for nakedly political reasons – to ease the political pressure, shift the blame to the courts for ending the moratorium, and use litigation delays to achieve a policy objective."

About half of all housing providers are mom-and-pop operators, and without rental income, they cannot pay their own bills or maintain their properties

[usnavy_cop_retired]

I believe it was the Ohio court administrator that just announced that they will not abiding by the latest CDC edict, so, yes, the local/state courts can, (and some will), ignore the CDC.

[rightwingcrazy]

I thought Kavanaugh ruled that unconstitutional acts are AOK as long as they have a time limit. It’s easy to imagine that he’d find unconstitutional extensions to unconstitutional acts are just fine, too, as long as they’re temporary.