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SCOTUS Says Violating the Constitution Is Fine if Temporary

Guess what’s unconstitutional? When the federal government tells property owners they cannot be paid by tenants who rent their property.

In September 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told state courts that they could not hear eviction proceedings and unilaterally declared that private property owners had to allow non-paying renters to live rent-free until the CDC says otherwise. At the time, the CDC pointed to COVID-19 as justification for its unprecedented power grab, but it quickly proclaimed that the federal agency could stop evictions at anytime in the name of “fairness”—pandemic or not.

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