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It's been a year and a half. The emergency justifications are gone, so it's time for congress to act. It's the judicial branch's job to act as a check on the po
by dehrmann 5y ago
It's been a year and a half. The emergency justifications are gone, so it's time for congress to act. It's the judicial branch's job to act as a check on the power of the executive branch.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoNote that it is also the judicial branch's job to act as a check on the power of the legislative branch. (For example, if Congress passed a bill that said that nobody could collect rent for the next two years, that would probably be an unconstitutional "taking".)
- dehrmann 5y agoProbably. It gets into eminent domain law. It would also mean you could sue the government for what it seized from you. Amusingly, if there's someone in the military who wasn't paying rent because of covid, the policy might have been a Third Amendment violation in that particular case.