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
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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.” He also researched and wrote the scholarly article “Virgil and the Constitution,” whose publication is pending in Regent University Law Review.
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