The Supreme Court has struck down the Biden administration's Covid-related eviction moratorium, writing in an unsigned, eight-page opinion that Congress must specially authorize any continued ban.
"Congress was on notice that a further extension would almost surely require new legislation, yet it failed to act in the several weeks leading up to the moratorium's expiration," the court wrote.
It also rejected the Biden Administration's argument that the CDC had the power to mandate such a ban. Calling it a "decades-old statute", the court said that it "strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority that it asserts."
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Erika Morphy
Erika Morphy has been writing about commercial real estate at GlobeSt.com for more than ten years, covering the capital markets, the Mid-Atlantic region and national topics. She's a nerd so favorite examples of the former include accounting standards, Basel III and what Congress is brewing.
