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Posted by: Kate Prince on Aug 4, 2021

President Joe Biden’s administration yesterday issued a more limited national eviction moratorium days after the original freeze expired, NPR reports. The order comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and covers parts of the U.S. they say have "substantial" and "high" spread of the coronavirus. The legality of the new order remains in question and could face challenges. The Biden administration said the president "quadruple-checked" on whether he had the legal power to extend the moratorium unilaterally, but that due to a Supreme Court ruling that blocked the CDC from extending its past moratorium beyond the end of July, his hands were tied.