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A federal judge has declared the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention temporary eviction moratorium unconstitutional, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation.The moratorium prohibits property owners from ousting tenants meeting certain criteria who are unable to pay their rent."Today, the court held that the federal government cannot interfere with private property rights or citizen's access to the courts to exercise their rights under state law," Texas Public Policy Foundation's General Counsel Robert Henneke said in a statement. "The CDC attempted to use COVID-19 as an opportunity to grab power and the court rightfully corrected this egregious overreach."https://freebeacon.com/politics/lincoln-project-staffer-may-have-violated-campaign-finance-law-ethics-watchdog-says/
In a victory for landlords, a federal judge in Ohio ruled Thursday that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exceeded its authority when it ordered a moratorium on evictions in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.The CDC's order went beyond what the federal Public Health Service Act allows the agency to do in halting housing evictions, U.S. District Judge J. Philip Calabrese said.He did not, however, grant an injunction that would have stopped the agency from enforcing the moratorium.The Justice Department is appealing another ruling two weeks earlier in which an Eastern Texas judge said the order was unconstitutional.
