president biden can sign it, so that we can prevent these there are 18 states this year alone who have passed more than 30 laws to try to suppress the rights of people to vote. and those people that they are trying to suppress are largely women, people of color, seniors, and young people. why? because they know that when we vote, our issues will be at the top of the agenda and we must continue to fight for our democracy and for our future. let me ask you about the supreme court blocking the cdc from enforcing the federal eviction freeze on renters. i know your democratic colleague cori bush tweeted this in response, if they think this partisan ruling is going to stop us from fighting to keep people housed, they re wrong. congress needs to act immediately for every unhoused or soon to be unhoused person in our districts. congressman, how can congress act? how is this going to impact your constituents?
challenged the eviction freeze ruled for the administration but narrowly and said, look, we ll let this run one more month until it officially expires. but if you want this, congress has to enact it. as we know, congress did not reenact it. president biden said this was necessary for the surge in cases related to the delta variant. and tried to make a legal case that the supreme court had initially suggested a very narrow ruling of public health law and so much had been changing in the country that this eviction moratorium was necessary. late last night the conservative majority did what was predicted, struck it down, said, no, the cdc does not have federal, legal authorization to do this. congress must do it. the three remaining liberals on this supreme court dissented