US Supreme Court allows evictions to resume during pandemic

Decision is the latest blow to the Biden administration, which sought to extend a moratorium on home evictions.

The US Supreme Court has allowed evictions to resume, blocking the administration of President Joe Biden from enforcing a temporary ban put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. The conservative-majority court’s action ends protection for roughly 3.5 million people in the United States who said they faced eviction in the next two months, according to Census Bureau data from early August. The court said late on Thursday in an unsigned opinion that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which reimposed the moratorium on August 3, lacked the authority to do so under federal law without explicit congressional authorisation.