Zack Smith is a legal fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
Judge Dabney Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on May 5 struck down the nationwide ban on evictions from rental properties put in place by the Department of Health and Human Services through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nine days later, though, after negativemedia coverage, she decided to leave the CDC’s order in effect.
Close examination of her two orders reveals that she got it right the first time and wrong the second, giving the appearance that she may have capitulated to media critics.