Biden flips on eviction ban he called likely illegal, but the media don’t care

The media are far more interested in the political gamesmanship surrounding the decision.

President Biden insisted he didn’t have the legal authority to extend a pandemic ban on housing evictions.

And then, under fierce pressure from Nancy Pelosi and his party’s liberal wing, he caved. 

Biden made the very move that he’d said, according to most legal experts, was "not likely to pass constitutional muster."

Now you might expect a flurry of stories accusing the president of defying the courts. But you would be disappointed.

The media are far more interested in the political gamesmanship surrounding the decision.

Every president stretches the limits of his authority. Barack Obama granted indefinite asylum to the Dreamers. Donald Trump unilaterally moved funding appropriated for other agencies to the Pentagon to build sections of his border wall. Remember the huge uproar among journalists and Democrats over that?

But not for Biden. Now of course keeping as many as a couple of million people from losing their apartments and homes is a worthy goal. The first moratorium was imposed by Trump, and when that lapsed, the CDC issued a new ban and extended it three times.

But then the Supreme Court said the CDC had exceeded its legal authority. But the court set a one-month deadline so Congress would have time to fix the problem. The Hill did nothing, the moratorium expired, and then Biden did his 180.