Letting Eviction Moratorium Expire Will Come Back To Haunt Democrats

The CDC's eviction moratorium expired this past weekend, and the failure of the Democratic Party to extend it, even with their majorities in Congress, is going to come back to haunt them. There is little doubt that they could have prevented this from happening, but too many in the Party just decided to look the other way and pretend that we aren't about to see a string of evictions that threaten any form of economic recovery. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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This past weekend, the eviction moratorium that had been put in place by the centers for disease control and prevention expired, leaving millions of Americans at risk of being evicted from their homes in the middle of a deadly global pandemic. Now, in the days since this moratorium expired, there has been a lot of blame thrown around. Some of it justified. Some of it not. Here is what we know about this eviction moratorium. It all actually started, by the way, a couple months ago, when the national association of realtors who really are the real villains of this story, they filed lawsuits trying to get the moratorium overturned because obviously they're realtors. They want that rent money. They can't kick people out to get somebody else in who would pay that money. So they filed a lawsuit saying this is unconstitutional. CDC does not have the authority to do this. And then in early July, the United States Supreme Court in a five to four decision agreed with them, but they decided, you know what, though, we're going to leave the moratorium in place because it expires in just a couple of weeks.

That decision came down, I believe it was July 2nd, moratorium was set to expire at the end of the day on July 31st, Supreme Court said, eh, we're nickel and diming here. We're going to let it roll out till the end of this. But no, the CDC does not have the authority to do this is what they ruled. So you can thank the conservative Supreme Court and the greedy bastards at the national association of realtors for making that a reality. Now, by virtue of this ruling, it would stand to reason that the administration, the Biden administration could not do anything to extend the moratorium. Certainly the CDC can, right? The Supreme Court, the ultimate law of the land said, you can't do this, CDC. So right there, CDC's hands are tied. There seems to be some kind of differing legal opinions on whether or not that's true, but based on what I've read, I do believe the CDC's hands are tied in this particular matter. So I do not fault them for letting it expire. Biden would likely be bound by the same kind of rules if he were to issue an executive order or something of that nature, obviously that would carry a little more weight.

You know, you kind of muddy the waters a bit a little there, but we also have to imagine at that point, realtor associations would once again, come back, appeal it right to the Supreme Court. Try to get it struck down. The only way we could have done this in a full proof manner would have been if Congress had passed a law, basically reinstituting, expanding, extending the eviction moratorium. So you can blame the conservative Supreme Court. They, they deserve a share of the blame. The realtors association, they deserve a share of the blame. And Congress of course deserves the lion's share of the blame here because yes, Congress could have done something. They could have passed legislation. They could have taken this up months ago because they knew it was coming. They knew the expiration date was coming. But of course, months ago, pandemic didn't seem as bad. But July, when that Supreme Court ruling came down and they knew that there was a finite end to this, that's when they should have acted.

That's when Delta started going wild. They saw what was happening.