https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1431007923799576577
kayleighmcenany
''- JOE: “The first person I was instructed to call on was…” -''
Instructed
5:37 PM · Aug 26, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
Shannon Bream
@ShannonBream
''BREAKING 6-3 #SCOTUS strikes down latest Biden administration eviction ban. Justice Breyer dissents, joined by Justices Kagan and Sotomayor. ''
Court:
“If a federally imposed eviction moratorium is to continue, Congress must specifically authorize it.”
9:29 PM · Aug 26, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/ShannonBream/status/1431066332070649862
>eviction moratorium
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/26/politics/supreme-court-eviction-moratorium/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/us/eviction-moratorium-ends.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-blocks-biden-administration-s-eviction-moratorium-n1277765
https://twitter.com/photowhitehouse/status/1431084577494220801
@photowhitehouse
''Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Eviction Moratorium ''
10:42 PM · Aug 26, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/26/statement-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-on-eviction-moratorium-3/
BRIEFING ROOM
Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Eviction Moratorium
AUGUST 26, 2021
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STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
The eviction moratoriums issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) saved lives by preventing the spread of the COVID-19 virus throughout the pandemic.
The Biden Administration is disappointed that the Supreme Court has blocked the most recent CDC eviction moratorium while confirmed cases of the Delta variant are significant across the country. As a result of this ruling, families will face the painful impact of evictions, and communities across the country will face greater risk of exposure to COVID-19.
In light of the Supreme Court ruling and the continued risk of COVID-19 transmission, President Biden is once again calling on all entities that can prevent evictions – from cities and states to local courts, landlords, Cabinet Agencies – to urgently act to prevent evictions.
Earlier this week, the White House released the following fact sheet: Biden Administration Takes Additional Steps to Prevent Evictions as the Delivery of Emergency Rental Assistance Continues to Increase.
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/26/june-23rd-jc-general-mark-milley-bagram-is-not-necessary-tactically-or-operationally-for-what-we-are-going-to-try-to-do-here-with-afghanistan/
June 23rd, JC General Mark Milley “Bagram is not necessary, tactically or operationally for what we are going to try to do here with Afghanistan”
August 26, 2021 | Sundance | 249 Comments
For the past couple of weeks I have been attempting to draw attention to this segment from a June 23rd congressional hearing. Given the events of the last 24 hours, that specific segment gains a higher level of importance. {Direct Rumble Link} PLEASE WATCH:
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley:
“Bagram is not necessary, tactically or operationally for what we are going to try to do here with Afghanistan. Consolidate on Kabul in defense of their government“.
Full Video Segment Below:
BACKGROUND: People have wondered how the Biden administration could get the collapse of Afghanistan so horribly wrong and botched completely the withdrawal of U.S. forces. To that point there is a little known Question and Answer session by Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO, CD05) that deserves some attention.
On June 23rd, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley testified in front of the House Armed Services Committee about their budget requests. Rep Doug Lamborn took this opportunity, he only had 4 minutes, to ask some very specific questions about Afghanistan and his concerns for early reports of the Taliban surging back into control.
Lamborn asked about the hazard of closing Bagram AFB given the tenuous nature of reliance on one airport in Kabul. Lamborn also asked about the evacuation of U.S-Afghan allies and the risk to women and girls if the Taliban were successful.
What Def Sec Austin and General Milley said in response totally explains why the White House was blind-sided by the Taliban. [WATCH Video at 01:06:56, Prompted]
Given the nature of what has happened in Afghanistan, those totally wrong estimations of the situation in the region should be enough to see both Secretary Austin and General Milley fired. At the very least, reliance on this inept and totally wrong outlook explains why the Biden administration had no idea what was about to happen.
Congressman Doug Lamborn’s questioning was directly on point, and in hindsight, stunningly prescient. Great job by Lamborn!
Hopefully, Austin was wrong when he said that any defense of women and girls in Afghanistan will be contingent upon the U.S. embassy in Kabul. The U.S. embassy in Kabul is no longer there, the Taliban have it.
https://youtu.be/9bpS8Zcic-U
WASHINGTON
Austin, Milley testify on Defense budget request | FULL HEARING
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The Hill
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified in front of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.
>Isn't this the second time? Will Biden listen this time?
This is the second time the eviction moratorium has reached the Supreme Court this year. In June, the court allowed the prior version of the moratorium to remain in place through July. However, on August 3rd the CDC arbitrarily renewed it for two months. This time the court halts it. “It strains credulity to believe that this statute grants the CDC the sweeping authority that it asserts.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/26/supreme-court-overturns-eviction-moritorium-again-6-3-ruling/
The U.S. Supreme Court has again overturned the national eviction moratorium imposed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In a 6-3 ruling [pdf HERE] the court has rejected arguments that the CDC is permitted to arbitrarily enforce an eviction moratorium. The high court notes such a government mandate would have to come from the U.S. Congress, not an unelected bureaucratic agency.
From the majority ruling: “It is indisputable that the public has a strong interest in combating the spread of the COVID–19 Delta variant. But our system does not permit agencies to act unlawfully even in pursuit of desirable ends. Cf. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U. S. 579, 582, 585–586 (1952) (concluding that even the Government’s belief that its action “was necessary to avert a national catastrophe” could not overcome a lack of congressional authorization). It is up to Congress, not the CDC, to decide whether the public interest merits further action here.” (link)