US Supreme Court blocks Biden's eviction moratorium

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(CNN Spanish) -

The Supreme Court blocked the moratorium on evictions of the Joe Biden administration on Thursday, at the request of homeowner groups who have challenged the moratorium in court.

"If a federally imposed moratorium on eviction is to continue, Congress must specifically authorize it," the court wrote in an unsigned 8-page opinion.

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Judge Stephen Breyer wrote a dissenting opinion, along with the other two liberal court justices.

“And a careful review of that record makes it clear that the applicants are virtually certain of being successful on the merits of their argument that the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] has exceeded its authority.

It would be one thing if Congress had specifically authorized the action the CDC has taken.

But that has not happened.

Instead, the CDC has imposed a nationwide moratorium on evictions based on a decades-old statute that authorizes it to implement measures such as fumigation and extermination of pests.

The credulity grows to believe that this statute gives the CDC the absolute authority that it affirms, ”the court continued.

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