A federal choose has delivered a possible blow to the nationwide eviction moratorium first issued below the Trump administration.
J. Campbell Barker, federal district choose for the Japanese District of Texas who was nominated by President Trump, dominated that the powers granted to the federal authorities within the Structure to manage interstate commerce didn’t give it the authority to problem a nationwide ban on evictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ruling got here in a lawsuit filed in October by a gaggle of Texas landlords who claimed they have been owed hundreds of {dollars} in unpaid lease and that the moratorium violated their property rights. It’s considered one of many lawsuits filed in federal courts in search of to overturn the eviction ban.
The U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention first issued its nationwide eviction moratorium in early September below the Trump administration. Public-health officers argued that the moratorium