Posted on 08/06/2021 10:41:31 AM PDT by lightman
Franklin County, Ohio, is taking a stand against President Biden’s recent directive for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a 60-day eviction moratorium extension.
In a statement released on Thursday, Franklin County Municipal Court Administrative and Presiding Judge Ted Barrows said the county will not comply, citing an appeals court ruling last month.
On July 23, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati found the CDC didn’t have the authority to impose the nationwide moratorium.
Based on that ruling, the Franklin County court release said, courts in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan are no longer bound by the latest moratorium the CDC imposed on Tuesday.
Franklin County is not alone on this issue. Wednesday, Toledo Housing Court Judge Joseph Howe told the Toledo Blade that his court would abide by the appeals court decision and not honor the moratorium, either.
On Thursday, the Hamilton County Municipal Court followed suit, with judges voting to not comply with the moratorium. (The Columbus Dispatch)
Judge Barrows made clear to the Columbus Dispatch, however, that tenants still have the same rights they did before the pandemic. Not only is there a process that must be followed, there is also pandemic aid still available for individuals struggling to pay rent.
In an interview with The Dispatch, Barrows downplayed the effect of ignoring the moratorium. He said landlords whose tenants had filed for a stay of eviction proceedings under the moratorium cannot immediately evict those tenants.
Instead, landlords will have to file a motion to lift the stay and state what further proceedings they feel are appropriate. [...]
Barrows said a large amount of relief funds remain available to tenants at risk of eviction, and the court would continue to work with tenants and various agencies to try to keep them in their residences. (The Columbus Dispatch)
Barrows went on to dismiss the media hype over the issue as "apocryphal."
"People talk about millions of people being set out and homeless and flooding shelters," Barrows told the Dispatch. "That's apocryphal. You're hearing that from advocates who have a certain point of view. It's hard to characterize this (decision) as a disaster."
Buckeye ping!
We need STATES and GOVERNORS to declare this.
We’re free and independent states who’ve freely joined together to form a united states of America; then willingly elected officials to oversee the union and manage it. The states never gave up their individual rights to govern themselves.
not certain i understand everything. the cdc decree sounds legally ludicrous. is biden just showboating?
Surprised to see Franklin County do this, given the City of Columbus.
There something like $47 billion in renter relief unused in the Covid bill for just this sort of thing. Only 3% of the original funds have been spent.
This is truly excellent news and it is exactly what is needed. It is also the way rebellions of this kind begin. One here, one there and then an ever increasing flood of people finally willing to express their outrage to an overbearing maniacal political Party.
Next we need people to simply discard their masks.
So when are Merritt Garland stormtroopers going to invite these judges to cohabit with the “insurrectionists” in solitary confinement.
Home of Ohio State. Has to be a huge number of rentals in the county, both from students and AirBnb football fans.
It's TIME to DownSize DC!
Restore the Constitution!Size DC!
Amen to that. DC has become an over bloated over governing monolith; time to pare it down. It’s so out of control it can’t even manage itself.
Unelected, unresponsive, Socialist Traitors at the top in almost all agencies.
It’s a big order, but it must be stopped.
The only way? Starve the Beast.
The whole place is filled with nepotism and payoff’s.
Yes
Fancy word alert: apocryphal
Defund Federal agencies!
The husbands company has not received any funding but what his wife has given him.
CDC Director Walensky’s Husband Received $5 Million in HHS Grants - and That’s Just the Start of It
https://redstate.com/scotthounsell/2021/08/06/exclusive-cdc-director-walenskys-husband-received-5-million-in-hhs-grants-and-thats-just-the-start-of-it-n421809
Hamilton County is Cincinnati, right?
Yes.
Cuyahoga County is Cleveland.
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