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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   By Jonah Goldberg | Columnist   
   Aug. 10, 2021 3:10 AM PT   
      
   President Biden has already violated his oath of office. The good news for him:   
   He’s in fine company.   
      
   In 2002, President George W. Bush signed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance   
   bill into law. At the ceremony, he expressed his “concerns” that the law he   
   signed “restrains the speech of a wide variety of groups on issues of public   
   import in the months closest to an election.” He added, deflecting from his   
   own   
   responsibilities, “I expect that the courts will resolve these legitimate   
   legal   
   questions as appropriate under the law.”   
      
   Between 2011 and 2014, President Obama said, over and over again, that he could   
   not unilaterally overturn or subvert laws passed by Congress and change the   
   immigration status of “Dreamers.” “I’m not a king. I am the head of the   
   executive branch of government. I’m required to follow the law,” he said in   
   January 2013. A month later, he reiterated that view: “I’m not the emperor   
   of   
   the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed, and Congress   
   right   
   now has not changed what I consider to be a broken immigration system.”   
      
   Then, in November 2014, he signed an executive order doing it anyway.   
      
   We can skip President Trump’s track record on violations of the oath of   
   office,   
   since he was impeached twice.   
      
   And now there’s Biden. Last week, his administration issued a “new”   
   moratorium   
   on renter evictions, essentially reissuing the one imposed by the Centers for   
   Disease Control and Prevention in September as a public health measure during   
   the pandemic. The Supreme Court said in June that the CDC had no authority to   
   issue a nationwide moratorium. But Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the   
   majority, told the administration that it could let the old moratorium expire   
   on   
   July 31 rather than eliminate it immediately, since it had only weeks left on   
   the clock. If the administration wanted a new moratorium after July, he said   
   “clear and specific congressional authorization (via new legislation) would   
   be   
   necessary.”   
      
   On July 31, the moratorium expired without congressional action. On Aug. 2,   
   White House advisor Gene Sperling was asked if the administration could   
   unilaterally extend the moratorium. His answer was that it couldn’t find   
   legal   
   authority to do so.   
      
   “The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it’s not likely to   
   pass   
   constitutional muster,” Biden conceded a day later. Yet, he added, “at a   
   minimum, by the time it gets litigated, it will probably give some additional   
   time while we’re getting that $45 billion out to people who are, in fact,   
   behind   
   in the rent and don’t have the money.”   
      
   This is no way to run a constitutional republic.   
      
   The president takes an oath to “faithfully execute” the laws and to   
   “preserve,   
   protect, and defend” the Constitution. Biden, Bush and Obama, by their own   
   admission, believed their actions ran afoul of the law and/or the Constitution.   
   But politically, it was easier to pass the trash to the Supreme Court so the   
   court could take the political heat.   
      
   You can be sure that when the court invalidates this new moratorium, Democrats   
   —   
   and probably some Republicans who’ve kept their heads down in all of this   
   — will   
   feign outrage at the court’s “callousness.”   
      
   But we should all be outraged by the cowardice of elected politicians who find   
   their jobs too difficult to do within the bounds of their oaths.   
      
   https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-10/covid-rent-evic   
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   See also:   
   "Biden's Eviction Moratorium Defies the Rule of Law"   
      
   https://reason.com/2021/08/11/bidens-eviction-moratorium-defies-   
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   The eviction moratorium is unconstitutional and illegal.  Leftists don't care   
   —   
   proggies don't merely hate our Constitution, they despise the very notion of   
   constitutional governance.   
      
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