Commentary
State and federal tenant eviction moratoria go beyond being “unconstitutional.” They’re a direct assault on the constitutional order itself. They represent insurrection from above.
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) holds up her phone while live streaming from the chair she spent the night in to highlight the upcoming expiration of the pandemic-related federal moratorium on residential evictions on the steps of the Capitol in Washington on July 31, 2021. Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters
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Rob Natelson
Author
Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution” (4th ed., 2025). He is a contributor to the Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.”
