Biden Keeps Pushing Dubious Arguments for CDC Supremacy

Reason's Jacob Sullum writes, "The Supreme Court last week rejected the idea that Congress gave the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the power to stop landlords from evicting tenants who fail to pay their rent. Unfazed by that setback, the Biden administration this week suggested that the CDC has the power to demand that every public school in the country force students to wear face masks.

Biden seems determined to anoint the CDC's director as the nation’s COVID-19 dictator, no matter what the law says. https://t.co/q0syAGdzUm

— Jacob Sullum (@jacobsullum) September 1, 2021

Both incidents show how readily President Joe Biden deploys dubious legal arguments to defend unprecedented power grabs in the name of fighting COVID-19. If successful, those arguments would undermine federalism, the rule of law, and the separation of powers."

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