POLITICO Opinion | Why Are Democrats Celebrating Biden’s Evictions Power Grab?

[oeb11]

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Is a president of the United States flagrantly defying the Constitution an authoritarian act? A threat to democracy? Something that at least should be discouraged or frowned upon?
© Matt Rourke/AP President Joe Biden’s eviction moratorium is of a piece with similar executive power grabs by his predecessors, particularly Barack Obama’s DACA and Donald Trump’s repurposing of military funding to the border wall. Judging by the reaction of Democrats and center-left commentators to the lawless last-minute decision of President Joe Biden’s CDC to extend an eviction moratorium sure to be struck down in the courts, the answer is emphatically “no.”

At the same time we are constantly being told that, say, a Texas election bill to prohibit drive-through voting or Tucker Carlson’s latest monologue on his influential Fox News program represents dire democratic backsliding, none of Biden’s allies are raising a peep of protest against a measure that represents exactly the sort of high-handed unilateral rule practiced by authoritarians everywhere.
Indeed, Biden’s handiwork is being celebrated as courageous and compassionate. What can he do as follow-up? Suspend habeas corpus? Quarter troops in people’s homes?
Biden’s eviction moratorium is of a piece with similar executive power grabs by his predecessors, particularly Barack Obama’s DACA and Donald Trump’s repurposing of military funding to the border wall. That doesn’t make it any better, in fact, it makes it worse. It means that executive lawlessness is becoming an ingrained part of our system. In its own right, Biden’s move is especially egregious.
Trump initially ordered an eviction moratorium in March 2020, which lapsed several months later. The CDC then ordered an eviction moratorium in September 2020, and it had extended it a couple of times under Biden, even while suffering setbacks in the courts.
There was never any warrant for the policy. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit wrote that the legal theory the government advanced would “grant the CDC director near–dictatorial power for the duration of the pandemic, with authority to shut down entire industries as freely as she could ban evictions."
In its own consideration of whether to block the moratorium, the Supreme Court made its thinking clear. There were four votes—Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett—for blocking the moratorium by vacating a stay on a lower court order against it. Brett Kavanaugh pulled up short of this. He found that the CDC “exceeded its existing statutory authority by issuing a nationwide eviction moratorium,” although he voted against ending the stay, on grounds that the moratorium was expiring in a few weeks anyway. Still, he stipulated, “clear and specific congressional authorization (via new legislation) would be necessary for the CDC to extend the moratorium past July 31.”
Ah, yes—congressional authorization. What a groundbreaking concept.

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This is how American democracy is supposed to work—if you have the votes to pass something through the House and Senate, and the president signs it, the measure becomes law (assuming it’s not unconstitutional). If you don’t have the votes, it doesn’t become law.
Given all the discussion lately about how our democracy may be entering its death throes, one would expect there’d be a renewed attachment to this essential part of the democratic process.
Even the White House briefly seemed on board relying on Congress, depending on the votes. “In light of the Supreme Court’s ruling,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last week, “the president calls on Congress to extend the eviction moratorium to protect such vulnerable renters and their families without delay.”
Then, a funny thing happened: Nothing.
According to news reports, roughly a dozen of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s own colleagues opposed extending the moratorium. So, a majority of the people’s representatives were against it—democracy had spoken.
That should have been the end of it. Biden himself referred to “the imminent ending of the CDC eviction moratorium.”
There was simply no legal authority to get around it. The head of Biden’s Covid task force, Jeff Zients, said the administration had “kicked every tire” searching for a justification, but had none.
“The president has not only kicked the tires; he has double, triple, quadruple checked,” declared Biden adviser Gene Sperling.
Then, under intense pressure from the left, Biden reversed course and decided to have his CDC order another extension without any plausible legal authority. Incredibly enough, he was explicit that “the bulk of the constitutional scholars say it’s not likely to pass constitutional muster.”
It’s not often a president of the United States admits he’s affirmatively violating his sworn duty to uphold the Constitution, but Biden did it—and got fulsome praise from congressional leaders of his own party.
Even though they have custody of the branch of government that is supposed to pass laws, Chuck Schumer and Pelosi were absolutely delighted that the head of the executive branch had, once again, demonstrated the continued erosion of their rightful prerogatives and their diminished role in our constitutional framework.
The true test of devotion to our democracy and constitutional system is if public officials honor it even when it produces unwelcome outcomes, or whether they try to find extra-legal workarounds. Trump abysmally failed this test after the last election, and Democrats—just as they did under Obama—are showing they are perfectly fine with unconstitutional governance so long as it produces their preferred results.
Remember that during their next lecture about how to protect American democracy.

[texassapper]

Because the Democrats are blind fools.

[HedonistForever]

Originally Posted by texassapper

Because the Democrats are blind fools.

They are fools indeed but they are not blind and not un-informed. They just don't care. Biden and Pelosi both know that extending the moratorium will not pass Constitutional muster but they do not care and have said so openly.

[Strokey_McDingDong]

The eviction moratorium was a dumb idea. People are just going into debt and getting fucked with no solution in sight.

[Jacuzzme]

But landlords are evil fucktards who never worked a day in their lives, it’s ok to illegally bankrupt them. /sarc

I’m guessing that property owners are still required to stay current on their debts, and it’s only the tenants who get let off the hook. Why fuck the owners over? If there’s a group more likely to be able to absorb the loss it’s the banks, not Joe Average who owns a couple apartment buildings for a living. If they’re gonna let tenants out of their obligation they should do the same for the investor.

Even that scenario is crap though. I’ve got no love lost for Merrill Lynch et al, but fucking them over is still shitty. Just open the country and shit can the stupid covid unemployment so everyone goes back to work.

[bambino]

Originally Posted by Jacuzzme

But landlords are evil fucktards who never worked a day in their lives, it’s ok to illegally bankrupt them. /sarc

I’m guessing that property owners are still required to stay current on their debts, and it’s only the tenants who get let off the hook. Why fuck the owners over? If there’s a group more likely to be able to absorb the loss it’s the banks, not Joe Average who owns a couple apartment buildings for a living. If they’re gonna let tenants out of their obligation they should do the same for the investor.

Even that scenario is crap though. I’ve got no love lost for Merrill Lynch et al, but fucking them over is still shitty. Just open the country and shit can the stupid covid unemployment so everyone goes back to work.

It’s a payback for Blackrock. The banks will bundle up thousands of properties and sell them to BlackRock for pennies on the dollar.

[Oilrig]

Dems goal is to have everyone on welfare for life those are bought and paid for votes The last piece of the puzzle is to get landlords paid. Landlords get the rent check directly from the government and don't have to worry about a late paying tenant. Without pounding a nail Dems just created millions of public housing apts

[Jacuzzme]

Originally Posted by bambino

It’s a payback for Blackrock. The banks will bundle up thousands of properties and sell them to BlackRock for pennies on the dollar.

They’ve gotta be getting creamed in this market tho, no way these prices are sustainable. I just sold a place I had poa over for twice what I thought it was gonna be worth. It got 5 offers the day it the mls. The best was 25k over ask, all cash, with no inspections or obligatory help towards closing costs. I couldn’t believe it, the realtor said it was typical in the current market.

[Strokey_McDingDong]

You can't just blame dems for this, though. Who came up with the shitty eviction moratorium idea in the first place?

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by Jacuzzme

They’ve gotta be getting creamed in this market tho, no way these prices are sustainable. I just sold a place I had poa over for twice what I thought it was gonna be worth. It got 5 offers the day it the mls. The best was 25k over ask, all cash, with no inspections or obligatory help towards closing costs. I couldn’t believe it, the realtor said it was typical in the current market.

whats the normal price?

[Unique_Carpenter]

Just a side comment, I know of a few renters that bought houses. They stockpiled unpaid rent, used that for downpayment, and moved out of rental before landlord filed eviction.

Back to the thread, I would think landlords property rights are covered by 4th amendment. So are the feds gonna payoff every landlord?

[oeb11]

UC - the big banks that control mortgages - paid their 'Dues' to the Fiden /DPST machine in millions of dollars of graft into the corrupt pockets of teh fiden machine.

The banks will foreclose and seize the properties pushed into bankruptcy by the fiden Illegal eviction

it is a fiden criminal cabal arranged coup against private property in America

And teh big Banks - as Big Tech - are just a DPST operative enriching themselves and the fiden/DPST cabal - by putting all others into marxist Control.

as fiden made clear - he and his puppet masters and DPST cabal don't give a shit about the constitution or rule of law.




Fuck the criminals

Stand up and tell them

From my cold dead hands!

[rexdutchman]

Because the CDC has NO power to do what they did , So bypassing RULE OF LAW

[bambino]

Originally Posted by Jacuzzme

They’ve gotta be getting creamed in this market tho, no way these prices are sustainable. I just sold a place I had poa over for twice what I thought it was gonna be worth. It got 5 offers the day it the mls. The best was 25k over ask, all cash, with no inspections or obligatory help towards closing costs. I couldn’t believe it, the realtor said it was typical in the current market.

Do you think BlackRock and Vanguard cares?? They were installed by the Deep State. They own close to 80% of stock in the major corporations in all industries. They’re a part of the Great Reset.

[texassapper]

The eviction moratorium is only going to kill the individual landlord... the guy that owns less than 50 units or so. The mortgages didn't get a moratorium... just the rental payments. That will force the landlords to sell to big outfits like Blackrock and thus crush the middle class a little bit more.

Then end goal is feudalism... a wealthy aristocracy and the rest of us serfs. They'll roll out the vaccine passports which will morph into a social credit system... voice opposition to the wealthy and they'll simply turn off your ability to work, move, get groceries.

Most of the 'tards voting for this shit are too stupid to see it coming.

And if you're a renter or dependent on the govt. in some way shape or form you will do what you're told.

The digital gulag doesn't need wire to kill you.

The only way out of this is at the State level. If the States don't push back on the Federal govt. we're al going to be fcuked. You're going to get replace by Juan from Nicaragua who will value the govt. handouts much more than you do.

Your childrens' future is getting flushed down the toilet while you watch.