Can the Trump administration halt evictions on public-health grounds?
The CDC’s decree on evictions will be challenged in court
EVEN IN NORMAL times, attending housing court in America is a dispiriting encounter with the judicial system. The justice dispensed looks much like a conveyor belt. Few tenants can afford lawyers to challenge the eviction orders sought by their landlord (unlike criminal proceedings, there is no right to counsel). Many do not show up on the day, so the judge enters default evictions for them en masse. Even more dispiriting would be the spectacle of a judge pronouncing a family’s eviction by video conference in the midst of an epidemic that has killed 190,000 Americans.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Shelter in place”
United States September 12th 2020
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