Justice Kavanaugh Is As Ungrateful As Anyone Can Be...
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a moratorium on evictions imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) due to the coronavirus pandemic can remain in place through the end of July. The Court ruled 5-4 to reject a request by a group of landlords to order the immediate lifting of the moratorium. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined with the court’s liberal wing — Justice Stephen Breyer, Justice Elena Kagan, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor — to deny the landlords’ petition.
Justices Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas indicated they would have lifted the ban. In a brief concurring opinion, Kavanaugh wrote that while he believed the CDC overstepped its boundaries by extending the moratorium, “[b]ecause the CDC plans to end the moratorium in only a few weeks … and because those few weeks will allow for additional and more orderly distribution of the congressionally appropriated rental assistance funds, I vote at this time to deny the application.”
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