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Buy1Sell2 · Aug 9, 2021

Awkward Moment in Martha’s Vineyard: Pelosi Runs Into Obama After Being Disinvited from 60th Birthday Bash
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi was recently disinvited from Barack Obama’s supposedly ‘scaled down’ 60th birthday bash. That didn’t stop the stubbornly persistent Speaker from crashing Obama’s pre-birthday festivities at the celeb-filled resort where the big bash is being held.

But to hear Madame Speaker tell it, the reason for her to take her private jet up to Martha’s Vineyard — climate catastrophe be damned — was that it was all business. Because, obviously, politicians never lie.

Buy1Sell2 · Aug 10, 2021

HURT FEELINGS? Disinvited Pelosi Tells Reporters She Was Too Busy With “Other Parties” to Attend Obama’s Birthday
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was apparently too busy with “other parties” to attend the most popular Democratic president in modern history Barack Obama’s 60th birthday party.

According to the Daily Mail, Pelosi showed up to St. Elizabeth’s Church on Martha’s Vineyard, where Obama’s party was, but didn’t go inside. Why? Because she had other parties to go to.

“I didn’t go. I had other parties to go to,” Pelosi said to Attorney Kevin Blake after being asked how the party was.

Buy1Sell2 · Aug 11, 2021

The Atlantic Predicts Pelosi’s Impending Departure; ‘She Will Announce That She’s Stepping Down’
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Speaker Pelosi is about to step down in the near future, according to an Atlantic report published on Tuesday.

“Sometime in the not-so-distant future, probably after next year’s midterm elections, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will announce that she’s stepping down,” the Atlantic wrote.

Critically, the next Democratic Speaker or House Minority Leader is believed to be a sure thing: It’s Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York.

ph1l · Aug 26, 2021

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Friendly Fire: Biden White House Backhands Speaker Pelosi Over Eviction Ban
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The Biden White House is not happy with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. On Monday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki back handed Pelosi after she claimed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) could reinstitute the eviction ban amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pelosi, who failed to extend the ban in the House, is clearly trying to spread the blame.

“The CDC has the power to extend the eviction moratorium. As they double down on masks, why wouldn’t they extend the moratorium in light of delta variant?” Pelosi tweeted on Sunday.
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What a novel concept -- is Congress and not the CDC is supposed to write federal laws now?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/us/eviction-moratorium-ends.html

Supreme Court Ends Biden’s Eviction Moratorium

The ruling followed political and legal maneuvering by the administration to retain protections for tenants. It puts hundreds of thousands at risk of being put out of their homes.

Demonstrators rallying this month in Manhattan in favor of an extension of the federal eviction ban. The Supreme Court said Thursday that “if a federally imposed eviction moratorium is to continue, Congress must specifically authorize it.”Credit...Ed Jones/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

By Adam Liptak

Aug. 26, 2021Updated 10:44 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Biden administration’s latest moratorium on evictions, ending a political and legal dispute during a public health crisis in which the administration’s shifting positions had subjected it to criticism from adversaries and allies alike.

The court issued an eight-page majority opinion, an unusual move in a ruling on an application for emergency relief, where terse orders are more common. The court’s three liberal justices dissented.

The decision puts hundreds of thousands of tenants at risk of losing shelter, while the administration struggles to speed the flow of billions of dollars in federal funding to people who are behind in rent because of the coronavirus pandemic and its associated economic hardship. Only about $5.1 billion of the $46.5 billion in aid had been disbursed by the end of July, according to figures released on Wednesday, as bureaucratic delays at the state and local levels snarled payouts.

The majority opinion, which was unsigned, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had exceeded its authority.

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“The C.D.C. has imposed a nationwide moratorium on evictions in reliance on a decades-old statute that authorizes it to implement measures like fumigation and pest extermination,” the opinion said. “It strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the C.D.C. the sweeping authority that it asserts.”

Justice Stephen G. Breyer, writing for the three dissenting justices, faulted the court for its haste during a public health crisis.

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“These questions call for considered decision-making, informed by full briefing and argument,” he wrote. “Their answers impact the health of millions. We should not set aside the C.D.C.’s eviction moratorium in this summary proceeding.”

The majority said the issues were fully considered and straightforward. “It is indisputable that the public has a strong interest in combating the spread of the Covid-19 Delta variant,” the opinion said. “But our system does not permit agencies to act unlawfully even in pursuit of desirable ends.”

“If a federally imposed eviction moratorium is to continue,” the opinion said, “Congress must specifically authorize it.”

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In dissent, Justice Breyer wrote that “the public interest is not favored by the spread of disease or a court’s second-guessing of the C.D.C.’s judgment.”

The ruling set off a furious reaction from the moratorium’s proponents, and renewed pressure on congressional Democrats to try to extend the freeze over the opposition of Republicans.

“Tonight, the Supreme Court failed to protect the 11 million households across our country from violent eviction in the middle of a deadly global pandemic,” said Representative Cori Bush, a Missouri Democrat who slept on the steps of the Capitol this month to protest the expiration of the previous moratorium. “We already know who is going to bear the brunt of this disastrous decision — Black and brown communities, and especially Black women.”

The administration had at first concluded that a Supreme Court ruling in June had effectively forbidden it from imposing a new moratorium after an earlier one expired at the end of July. While the administration had prevailed in that ruling by a 5-to-4 vote, one member of the majority, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, wrote that he believed the moratorium to be unlawful and that he had cast his vote to temporarily sustain it only to allow an orderly transition. He would not support a further extension without “clear and specific congressional authorization (via new legislation),” he wrote.

Congress did not act. But after political pressure from Democrats, a surge in the pandemic and new consideration of the legal issues, the administration on Aug. 3 issued the moratorium that was the subject of the new ruling.

The administration’s legal maneuvering might have failed, but it bought some time for tenants threatened with eviction. In unusually candid remarks this month, President Biden said that was part of his calculus in deciding to proceed with the new moratorium, which was set to expire Oct. 3.

Congress declared a moratorium on evictions at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, but it lapsed in July 2020. The C.D.C. then issued a series of its own moratoriums, saying that they were justified by the need to address the pandemic and authorized by a 1944 law. People unable to pay rent, the agency said, should not be forced to crowd in with relatives or seek refuge in homeless shelters, spreading the virus.

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The last moratorium — which was put in place by the C.D.C. in September and expired on July 31 after being extended several times by Congress and Mr. Biden — was effective at achieving its goal, reducing by about half the number of eviction cases that normally would have been filed since last fall, according to an analysis of filings by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University.

But landlords have said that the moratoriums saddled them with billions of dollars in debt. The challengers in the current case — landlords, real estate companies and trade associations led by the Alabama Association of Realtors — argued that the moratorium was not authorized by the law the agency relied on, the Public Health Service Act of 1944.

That law, the challengers wrote, was concerned with quarantines and inspections to stop the spread of disease and did not bestow on the agency “the unqualified power to take any measure imaginable to stop the spread of communicable disease — whether eviction moratoria, worship limits, nationwide lockdowns, school closures or vaccine mandates.”

The C.D.C. responded that the moratorium was authorized by the 1944 law. Evictions would accelerate the spread of the coronavirus, the agency said, by forcing people “to move, often into close quarters in new shared housing settings with friends or family, or congregate settings such as homeless shelters.”

The moratorium, the administration told the justices, was broadly similar to quarantine. “It would be strange to hold that the government may combat infection by prohibiting the tenant from leaving his home,” its brief said, “but not by prohibiting the landlord from throwing him out.”

The case was complicated by congressional action in December, when lawmakers briefly extended the C.D.C.’s moratorium through the end of January in an appropriations measure. When Congress took no further action, the agency again imposed moratoriums under the 1944 law.

In its Supreme Court brief, the government argued that it was significant that Congress had embraced the agency’s action, if only briefly.

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The central legal question in the case was whether the agency was entitled to act on its own. In June, with the earlier moratorium about to expire, the court voted 5 to 4 in favor of the administration, allowing that measure to stand.

But that victory was distinctly provisional. Justice Kavanaugh, who voted with the majority, wrote that he had cast his vote reluctantly and had taken account of the then-impending expiration of the earlier moratorium.

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exceeded its existing statutory authority by issuing a nationwide eviction moratorium,” Justice Kavanaugh wrote. “Because the C.D.C. plans to end the moratorium in only a few weeks, on July 31, and because those few weeks will allow for additional and more orderly distribution of the congressionally appropriated rental assistance funds, I vote at this time to deny the application” that had been filed by the challengers.

Justice Kavanaugh added that the agency could not extend the moratorium on its own. “In my view,” he wrote, “clear and specific congressional authorization (via new legislation) would be necessary for the C.D.C. to extend the moratorium past July 31.”

The other members of the court did not give reasons for their votes in the June ruling. But four of them — Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett — voted to lift the earlier moratorium. Taken together with Justice Kavanaugh’s statement, that distinctly suggested that a majority of the justices would not look favorably on another extension unless it came from Congress.

The Biden administration initially seemed to share that understanding, urging Congress to act and saying it did not have the unilateral power to impose a further moratorium through executive action. When Congress failed to enact legislation addressing the issue, the moratorium expired.

Under pressure from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats and wary of the rise of the Delta variant, the administration reversed course a few days later.

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The new moratorium was not identical to the earlier one, which had applied nationwide. It was instead tailored to counties where Covid-19 was strongest, a category that currently covers some 90 percent of counties in the United States.

Mr. Biden was frank in discussing his reasoning, saying the new measure faced long odds but would buy tenants some time.

“The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it’s not likely to pass constitutional muster,” he said on Aug. 3. “But there are several key scholars who think that it may — and it’s worth the effort.”

Two days later, he offered further thoughts.

“Here’s the deal,” he said. “I can’t guarantee you the court won’t rule if we don’t have that authority, but at least we’ll have the ability, if we have to appeal, to keep this going for a month at least — I hope longer than that.”

The moratoriums deferred but did not cancel the obligation to pay rent, but the challengers wrote that this “massive wealth transfer” would “never be fully undone.” Many renters, they wrote, would be unable to pay what they owed. “In reality,” they wrote, “the eviction moratorium has become an instrument of economic policy rather than of disease control.”

Even before the Supreme Court ruling, data released by the Census Bureau on Wednesday estimated that 1.2 million households were very likely to face eviction for nonpayment of rent over the next two months.

Still, many states and localities, including New York and California, have extended their own moratoriums, providing another layer of protection for some renters. In some places, judges, aware of the potential for large numbers of people to be put out on the street even as the pandemic intensifies again, have said they would slow-walk cases and make greater use of eviction diversion programs.
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userque · Aug 27, 2021

ph1l said:
What a novel concept -- is Congress and not the CDC is supposed to write federal laws now?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/us/eviction-moratorium-ends.html
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Buy1Sell2 · Aug 27, 2021

WATCH: Nancy Pelosi Is ALL SMILES At Speaking Event While Americans Are Murdered In Afghanistan
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On a day where at least 13 Americans have been murdered by ISIS suicide bombings in Afghanistan, Nancy Pelosi was all smiles at a speaking event in San Francisco to commemorate “Women’s Equality Day”.

Pelosi failed to mention the attacks at any point during her speech. In fact, she was all smiles, often cracking jokes.

Buy1Sell2 · Sep 1, 2021

Speaker Pelosi Blocks the Names of 13 US Service Members From Being Read on House Floor
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On Tuesday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi blocked the names of the 13 United States service members who died due to President Joe Biden’s incompetence, from being read allowed on the House floor after a moment of silence.

“How badly do Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats want to cover up this Afghanistan debacle? They just blocked Members of Congress from reading the names of the service members who sacrificed their lives in Afghanistan last week.” Congressman Gimenez said on Tuesday.

Spike Trader · Sep 1, 2021

BOMBSHELL : Matt Gaetz is going to seize Nancy Pelosi's phone records IF they come into power in 2022...

Matt Gaetz threatens to seize Nancy Pelosi's phone records in retaliation for Jan. 6 investigation

"The reason Nancy Pelosi is doing this is because they want to cast this cloud of criminality," he complained. "Nancy Pelosi better be careful what she wishes for because if the new tradition when one party gains power in the House of Representatives is that you investigate the personal records and the personal lives of the people who are out of power, well then 2022 and 2023 are going to be very difficult years for the Democrats."

"Maybe we ought to look at Nancy Pelosi's phone records with her husband," the congressman continued,

Buy1Sell2 · Sep 2, 2021

Spike Trader said:
BOMBSHELL : Matt Gaetz is going to seize Nancy Pelosi's phone records IF they come into power in 2022...

Matt Gaetz threatens to seize Nancy Pelosi's phone records in retaliation for Jan. 6 investigation

"The reason Nancy Pelosi is doing this is because they want to cast this cloud of criminality," he complained. "Nancy Pelosi better be careful what she wishes for because if the new tradition when one party gains power in the House of Representatives is that you investigate the personal records and the personal lives of the people who are out of power, well then 2022 and 2023 are going to be very difficult years for the Democrats."

"Maybe we ought to look at Nancy Pelosi's phone records with her husband," the congressman continued,
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Buy1Sell2 · Sep 7, 2021

BREAKING: Pelosi’s Archbishop Threatens to Excommunicate Her, Other Prominent Dems From the Church Over Abortion
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Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is in danger of being excommunicated from the Catholic Church for her continuous support of the murder of unborn children.

Over the weekend, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who just so happens to be the archbishop of Pelosi’s home diocese in San Francisco, California, wrote an essay in the Washington Post, announcing that excommunication is a potential action to take against self-proclaimed Catholic Democrat leaders who support abortion.

In his piece, Cordileone urged Catholic politicians to oppose abortion, saying that “[y]ou cannot be a good Catholic and support expanding a government-approved right to kill innocent human beings.”