SCOTUS strikes down eviction ban.

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The Supreme Court rules on the eviction ban. Plus, a question about Trump’s role in the Afghanistan withdrawal.

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What D.C. is talking about.

Evictions. On Thursday, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to block President Joe Biden’s most recent eviction moratorium extension. Earlier this year, the court had ruled that the administration couldn’t extend the ban on evictions, which was put in place last March by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address the Covid-19 pandemic without congressional authorization (we covered that here). Then, after protests from progressive Democrats, the CDC issued a new ban despite Biden conceding that he did not believe it could withstand scrutiny from the courts (we covered that here). Now, the Supreme Court has indeed blocked the latest renewal of the moratorium.

The CDC issued its initial eviction ban by citing the 1944 Public Health Service Act, which states the following:

The [CDC], with the approval of the Secretary, is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the