Supreme Court declines to lift eviction moratorium

• But a group of landlords and real-estate companies filed an emergency request to override the extension and effectively end the moratorium after a federal judge ruled last month it was "legally unsupportable," the Wall Street Journal reports.

The big picture: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court's three liberal justices in declining to lift the U.S.-wide moratorium.

• Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett voted to lift the moratorium.
• Kavanaugh said he agreed that the CDC exceeded its authority in enacting the moratorium, but added that the extra weeks of the extension will allow the government "additional and more orderly distribution of the congressionally appropriated rental assistance funds."
• "In my view, clear and specific congressional authorization (via new legislation) would be necessary for the CDC to extend the moratorium past July 31," he added.