By Krisanne Hall
It brings into sharp focus how our inalienable rights
protected by our Constitution are being usurped by the power-hungry and corrupt
tyrants running the federal government.
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Justice Kavanaugh Schools Joe Biden on the
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Supreme Court justices are not in the habit of schooling
presidents about the ins and outs of the United States Constitution. It’s
assumed that anyone who achieves such high office has a passing familiarity
with our founding document.
But Joe Biden apparently needs some remedial learning. He
had his administration sent letters to state and local officials urging that
they block unnecessary residential evictions after the high court’s 6-3
decision calling the president’s ban on evictions unconstitutional.
It’s the second time the court has said so, and Biden’s
actions make it clear he doesn’t get it. In late June, the Supreme Court
refused to extend the eviction moratorium that had been in place since March of
2020 citing overreach by the Centers for Disease Control. Justice Kavanaugh
wrote for the majority.
“[C]lear and specific congressional authorization (via new
legislation) would be necessary for the CDC to extend the moratorium past July
31.”
The
Biden administration letter to state and local authorities suggested they enact
their own eviction moratoriums, noting that six states and the District of
Columbia have already done so.
It
said state and local courts should also require landlords to apply for rental
assistance that was approved in COVID-19 legislation earlier this year before
commencing eviction proceedings. The letter said the Treasury Department is
working with state and local governments to get the aid “out the door and into
the hands of renters and landlords.”
Unconstitutional means unconstitutional. The ball is
clearly in Congress’s court — the same place it’s been since the pandemic
began.
But democracy is just too hard for the left. It’s so much
easier to have the courts take a shortcut through the law and dare the Supreme
Court to quash it.
The
Court’s eight-page unsigned opinion lifts a district court
stay on its own injunction and makes unequivocally clear that the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t come close to having legal authority to
ban evictions. Landlords “not only have a substantial likelihood of success on
the merits—it is difficult to imagine them losing,” the Court writes.
In fact, this is not a problem for the courts. It is a
governing problem — namely, incompetent governing.
There are at least $42 billion dollars in rental
assistance sitting in state coffers waiting for state and local bureaucrats to
get the money to people who need it — renters who are on the verge of being
evicted. Congress has taken action to address the problem. But activists are
weeping for the “millions facing eviction” because the Supreme Court decided
to impose a little constitutional order on the process.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the opinion last June that
spanked the president for his constitutional ignorance.
“The CDC has imposed a nationwide moratorium on evictions
in reliance on a decades-old statute that authorizes it to implement measures
like fumigation and pest extermination,” the Court explains. “It strains
credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority
that it asserts.” Under the government’s argument, there’s no limiting
principle to CDC authority.
“No limiting principle”? It’s almost like Kavanaugh was
using flashcards to school a slow learner in the classroom.
“Could the CDC, for example, mandate free grocery
delivery to the homes of the sick or vulnerable? Require manufacturers to
provide free computers to enable people to work from home? Order
telecommunications companies to provide free high-speed Internet service to
facilitate remote work?” the opinion muses.
The left has stupidly decided to make the eviction
moratorium part of their “compassion theater” that substitutes for
constitutional government. They are in the wrong. They know it. But they can’t
resist the siren call of social justice.
Perhaps Kavanaugh shouldn’t have given the left any ideas
about what they can do next to “help people.”
