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Friday, May 07, 2021 2:58:29 PM
A 1944 law, the Public Health Service Act, lets the CDC write regulations that it judges "necessary" to stop disease from entering the U.S. or from spreading between states. To carry out that mandate, the CDC "may provide for such inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, destruction of animals or articles found to be so infected or contaminated as to be sources of dangerous infection to human beings, and other measures."
If interpreted as a broad grant of authority, with a catchall phrase for "other measures," that could mean practically anything. But to steal a game from "Sesame Street," one of these three things doesn't belong: fumigation; pest extermination; and an eviction ban that applies to every residence in the nation.
In a ruling Wednesday, federal Judge Dabney Friedrich placed the statutory language in its proper context, saying that the CDC's catchall rules must relate to "animals or articles" that are infected or contaminated. "The national eviction moratorium," she wrote, "satisfies none of these textual limitations."
Accepting the CDC's position, Judge Friedrich said, "would mean that Congress delegated" to the executive branch a sweeping power "to resolve not only this important question, but endless others." The only real limit would be a need to gesture toward a link to illness.
This obviously isn't what Congress was delegating to the CDC, and other district courts have also said the eviction ban exceeds the law. Both parties are guilty, since the policy began under President Trump and was extended under President Biden. But the legal problem for constitutionalists is if the order lapses on June 30, as it should, then these cases might be moot. The risk of unconstitutional government rises if politicians get away with it."
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