Cori Bush protesting the eviction moratorium is a terrible look

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The courts flat out said that the only reason that they didn't lift the moratorium that Biden and the CDC placed was because the moratorium was going to expire on July 31st. The only way they wouldn't lift it again is if it came from Congressional Authorization.

So what do you think will happen if that moratorium issue shows up at their courts again by Biden/CDC and not from Congress? Don't forget that there's no guarantee that Congress would even come to an agreement to extend the moratorium even when they come back to work next month.

Again, you're misreading the concurrence.

It was an "application to vacate stay," effectively an application for the SCOTUS to overturn a specific Congressional statute as both unconstitutional and likely to cause "irreparable harm" or that there is a high probability that at least four justices would grant "certiorari" and review the legal merits of the case.

The concurrence was *Kavanaugh's opinion about things, and has no merit at all, no controlling weight, and no legal support. It's just his opinion and reasoning for agreeing with the majority choice - he's ensuring people know *he* doesn't want to interpret the program beyond its scope in time.

The "Courts" didn't say that - one Justice did. Now, that being said, there are several options, depending on how the cases are brought: the lower and intermediate federal courts may (and may will) continue to extend the moratorium on their own, many state courts will also do the same (this is literally the legal work I'm doing right now in my state, so trust me, I have a really solid grasp of it), and until there's a legal challenge that makes it to the SCOTUS that precludes a progressive interpretation, it's up the individual courts to make their own decisions.

Now, you're right that Congress and the Executive Branch will likely fold on this issue - as they already have - but that shifts the burden to the state legislatures and courts, and judges have a lot of power to actively delay eviction hearings or to construe public policy reasons why they'd extend things.

 

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It's cause the protest is an obvious attempt to clout chase. Like someone else said, everyone in Congress knew that the eviction was coming up, yet they wait til now to make noise about it.

If "The Squad" was bout it, they could've told Pelosi that they wasn't signing shyt in Congress til they handle the eviction deadline.

That obviously wouldn't work. There aren't many measures that "the Squad" would have made a difference on - and the few bills they would have been able to draw a line on were vital votes for other services and issues. They're getting demonized right now for pushing Pelosi and Schumer a little bit harder on the infrastructure bill, there is little chance that they would have been able to stop anything important without getting destroyed, nationwide.

Not only that, but you're pointing out that Congress was aware of the deadline - the administrative agencies, the federal courts, the executive branch, and all three branches on the state level(s) were also aware of the deadline, and each assumed that the other would pick up the slack. I'm not going to attack the few legitimately progressive Congresspeople for making a national point of protest when the failure is evenly spread along every branch of government in the nation.

There's also the point that no one in this thread seems to understand: the progressive wing already tried to get the moratorium extended - the moderate and conservative wing of the party explicitly opposed it, alongside the Republicans - because the Biden Administration purposely didn't make its position known until July 29th.
How Democrats Screwed Up So Royally on Evictions

 

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Again, you're misreading the concurrence.

It was an "application to vacate stay," effectively an application for the SCOTUS to overturn a specific Congressional statute as both unconstitutional and likely to cause "irreparable harm" or that there is a high probability that at least four justices would grant "certiorari" and review the legal merits of the case.

The concurrence was *Kavanaugh's opinion about things, and has no merit at all, no controlling weight, and no legal support. It's just his opinion and reasoning for agreeing with the majority choice - he's ensuring people know *he* doesn't want to interpret the program beyond its scope in time.

The "Courts" didn't say that - one Justice did. Now, that being said, there are several options, depending on how the cases are brought: the lower and intermediate federal courts may (and may will) continue to extend the moratorium on their own, many state courts will also do the same (this is literally the legal work I'm doing right now in my state, so trust me, I have a really solid grasp of it), and until there's a legal challenge that makes it to the SCOTUS that precludes a progressive interpretation, it's up the individual courts to make their own decisions.

Now, you're right that Congress and the Executive Branch will likely fold on this issue - as they already have - but that shifts the burden to the state legislatures and courts, and judges have a lot of power to actively delay eviction hearings or to construe public policy reasons why they'd extend things.

Which is laughable since we've seen many instances where state legislatives and courts were business as usual and weren't or stopped abiding by the eviction moratorium in the first place. If they didn't extend things then, why would they now? People were still using loopholes (non-rent related) to get tenants evicted and some judges just didn't care.

That's why I've saying for the longest, that the government is going to have to wipe evictions from some tenants credit because their lack of urgency in the situation. They literally through the money out there and didn't bother to simplify the process or give states a guideline or process to allocate it out.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

That obviously wouldn't work. There aren't many measures that "the Squad" would have made a difference on - and the few bills they would have been able to draw a line on were vital votes for other services and issues. They're getting demonized right now for pushing Pelosi and Schumer a little bit harder on the infrastructure bill, there is little chance that they would have been able to stop anything important without getting destroyed, nationwide.

Not only that, but you're pointing out that Congress was aware of the deadline - the administrative agencies, the federal courts, the executive branch, and all three branches on the state level(s) were also aware of the deadline, and each assumed that the other would pick up the slack. I'm not going to attack the few legitimately progressive Congresspeople for making a national point of protest when the failure is evenly spread along every branch of government in the nation.

There's also the point that no one in this thread seems to understand: the progressive wing already tried to get the moratorium extended - the moderate and conservative wing of the party explicitly opposed it, alongside the Republicans - because the Biden Administration purposely didn't make its position known until July 29th.
How Democrats Screwed Up So Royally on Evictions

Congress has had over a year to come up with an actual solution to the rent moratorium process, but they kept kicking the can down the road as they had the eviction moratorium to fall back on. They should have known months ago that it was only so long that moratorium was going to be extended because they had to actually do something or people will get evicted.

Even now, everyone is pointing the finger and placing blame on each other instead of actually working together to come up with an actual solution to the problem.

 

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The Squad and Progressives talk all that on social media and to the press, but cave in and fold when it's actually time to follow on their word. Some of them cats literally went onto Twitter to complain that they didn't have time to read one of those pandemic bills before having to vote on it, yet still voted yes for it anyways

most bills that get passed are hundreds or thousands of pages long. That’s the whole point, so they will get passed.

And they voted yes because they didn’t want to hold up relief any longer than it already had been.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

This is not Black Girl Magic aka Queen shyt.
This is sad.

so this gump actually thinks a junior congresswoman can Debo the house speaker

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

most bills that get passed are hundreds or thousands of pages long. That’s the whole point, so they will get passed.

And they voted yes because they didn’t want to hold up relief any longer than it already had been.

Those bills are only hundreds and thousands of pages long because it makes it easier for pork to be hid that benefit lobbyist on both sides of the table. Even you know that and you'd be lying if you said otherwise.

 

[Leao2005]

This is not Black Girl Magic aka Queen shyt.
This is sad.

He killed her but the F M4A gotta do with the rent

 

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House Democrats’ super PAC took in a million dollars from the chairman of a massive apartment rental company in June, before letting the federal eviction moratorium expire over the weekend amid a COVID-19 pandemic that continues to surge.

Last week, President Joe Biden’s administration belatedly called on Democrats in Congress to pass legislation to extend the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) eviction ban only days before it was set to expire on July 31 — a full month after Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the moratorium would have to be extended by legislation.

The late request by Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki seemed to catch Democratic lawmakers off guard as they were getting ready to enjoy a long summer recess period. House Democrats tried to quickly pass legislation extending the moratorium by unanimous consent, a maneuver that Republicans blocked. Afterwards, the House adjourned, and lawmakers started streaming out of town.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last Friday that Democratic leaders had only learned one day earlier that the Biden administration was counting on lawmakers to renew the eviction ban via legislation. However, she claimed the next day that her colleagues had led a “relentless campaign” to extend the moratorium, blaming Republicans for its failure. On Monday, Pelosi sent a letter to Democratic lawmakers arguing that “the moratorium must be extended by the administration.”

Soon after this, the Biden administration indicated in a statement it would keep trying to tackle the issue, noting that it’s directing federal agencies to “reexamine whether there are any other authorities to take additional actions to stop evictions.”

“In the meantime, the president will continue to do everything in his power to help renters from eviction,” noted the statement. The release did not explain why the White House waited to act until after the moratorium expired.

Democrats’ failure to extend the CDC’s eviction moratorium, which was first put in place by the Trump administration in September 2020, comes as the deadly delta COVID variant spreads around the nation, leading the CDC to urge people who are vaccinated to start wearing masks indoors again in public settings in places with high infection rates.

Allowing evictions to proceed will make the pandemic worse and will likely cause massive hardship on an unprecedented scale: Last year, researchers found that the expiration of state eviction bans had caused more than 400,000 new COVID cases between March and September. At least 3.6 million people are now facing the risk of eviction. That number could be far higher: According to the Aspen Institute, more than 15 million people are living in households that are behind on rent.

Meanwhile, Democrats have been raking in money from residential real estate interests that could benefit from the moratorium expiring.

“I’ve been looking at real estate, housing, and landlords for about 15 years, and this feels like an extension of what I have seen at the state and local levels,” said Sara Myklebust, Bargaining for the Common Good research director at Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. “You certainly see a pattern of landlords having close relationships as a result of money and influence, and that can affect the way lawmakers see these issues, the questions they ask, and the timelines on which they are willing to take action or not.”

Myklebust added: “It’s not shocking, because we have seen this pattern again and again. What is shocking is that millions of people are at risk of not just becoming homeless, but also getting a deadly disease.”

Millions From A Real Estate Tyc00n
George Marcus, chairman of both the massive real estate brokerage Marcus & Millichap and the real estate investment trust Essex Property Trust, donated $1 million on June 1 to House Majority PAC, a super PAC that works to elect Democratic lawmakers. The donation amounted to nearly 7 percent of the total funding the committee has raised so far this year.

Marcus also donated $263,400 in June to a joint fundraising committee benefiting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s campaign, her leadership PAC, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the party committee that works to elect House Democrats.

During the 2020 election cycle, Marcus donated a combined $1 million to the DCCC and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which elects Democratic Senate candidates. He contributed millions more to the party-aligned super PACs that aid those committees: $3.5 million to Senate Majority PAC and $3 million to House Majority PAC.

Marcus, who has a net worth of $1.7 billion, has also been a huge Biden supporter. He donated $4 million to super PACs that supported Biden: Priorities USA ($2 million), Unite the Country ($1 million), and American Bridge PAC ($1 million). He also hosted a Biden fundraiser in 2019, and donated $500,000 to the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee benefiting the Biden campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and state parties.

Marcus & Millichap, founded by Marcus in 1971, is the largest commercial real estate brokerage in North America and sells apartment buildings, too. While Marcus is part of a group of billionaire landlords that have together seen their personal fortunes increase by nearly $25 billion since last March, Marcus & Millichap has been hit hard by the pandemic.

Marcus also chairs and founded Essex Property Trust, and he controls a 3 percent stake in the company, according to Forbes. As of last year, Essex Property Trust had an ownership interest in 60,272 apartment units in California and Washington state, according to company disclosures. Over the last two election cycles, Essex Property Trust donated $23.5 million to committees that opposed ballot initiatives that would have allowed rent control measures in California.

In its latest quarterly report, Essex Property Trust wrote that primarily as a result of the pandemic, its cash delinquency rate was “higher than the pre-pandemic period, but improved from 4.3% for the three months ended June 30, 2020 to 2.6% for the three months ended June 30, 2021.” The company said that it “has executed some payment plans and will continue to work with residents to collect such cash delinquencies.”

In an earnings call last week, Essex Property Trust CEO Michael Schall said that the company expects its delinquency rates will “return to normal levels over time, as more workers enter the workforce and eviction protections lapse on September 30 in both California and Washington.”

When asked about the expiring federal eviction moratorium, Schall said that “we expect to work with our residents to the extent we can.”

Corporate Interests Stand To Gain
Marcus is far from the only Democratic donor who stands to gain from the eviction moratorium expiring.

During the 2020 election cycle, executives from the Blackstone Group, the private equity giant, donated $2.3 million to Senate Majority PAC, $250,000 to House Majority PAC, and $350,000 to Unite the Country, the pro-Biden super PAC.

In June, Blackstone announced it was buying Home Partners of America, a single-family home rental business that owns more than 17,000 homes. Blackstone also became a minority investor last year in Tricon Residential, which owns more than 30,000 single family and multifamily rental homes in the United States and Canada.

Lobbyists for real estate interests have also been flooding Democrats with cash. The lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has bundled $227,550 worth of donations for the DSCC this year. Brownstein’s lobbying clients include Apollo Global Management and Ares Management, two private equity firms with substantial real estate interests.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and its lobbyists have bundled $336,500 for the DSCC this year. The firm lobbies for Koch Industries, the conglomerate led by conservative billionaire Charles Koch that has been investing in residential real estate, specifically single-family rental homes, during the pandemic.

Another Akin Gump client, the National Association of Realtors, lobbied to end the CDC’s eviction ban. The firm also lobbies for KKR, a private equity giant with significant investments in luxury apartments.

Heather Podesta, who has raised $177,000 for the DSCC and $114,000 for the DCCC, is the founder and CEO of Invariant LLC, which lobbies for the National Association of Realtors and NAREIT, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.

Steve Elmendorf, a partner at Subject Matter, has raised $63,000 for the DCCC this year. His clients include Blackstone and the American Investment Council, a lobbying group for private equity firms. The National Realtors Association PAC has separately bundled $114,500 worth of donations for conservative Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia this year.

 

[Swaggatron]

Yeah I 85% side with renters but as a business owner.... I completely understand the landlords position and I hate how they're being made out to be the bad guys.

I cant imagine being forced to give away my services for free for several months while I'm struggling to pay my bills just like everyone else.

There really is no right answer in this scenario for the landlord

 

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[gldnone913]

It's Cori Bush fault tho

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

It's Cori Bush fault tho

You do realize she hasn't even been in congress a full year. Not even close to a full year

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

The best thing Democrats know how to do is faux outrage, performance theater, and not actually get shyt done.

 

[gldnone913]

You do realize she hasn't even been in congress a full year. Not even close to a full year

I know. Some of the folks in this thread thinks it's all her fault