Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger.

And we really hope you enjoyed our first special August podcast on Monday, where we talked

to Avi Love, where we heard about aliens and the airing of his grievances against his critics.

It was awesome in so many ways.

But now we're having a normal podcast there. We're doing law today because there's just so much that's happened.

We've got the eviction moratorium. We have the Attorney General's report out of New York.

We're going to talk about that from a legal perspective on the dispatch pod, which you should listen to.

We talked about it much more from a political perspective.

We've got a seven circuit vaccine case. We've got a problems with the FTC antitrust case against Facebook.

And if we've got time, we might talk about why the ninth circuit in this data, California might be making your bacon more expensive, if not absent from the shelves.

Wow. Okay. That's a lot.

So let's start eviction moratorium. What say you?

Okay. We've gotten so many emails about this. I don't.

I love when you'll email. I do have questions on how you thought we wouldn't cover the eviction moratorium.

We got these like, hey, are y'all going to maybe you could talk about this thing that's going on. Yes, obviously.

Okay. So first of all, the moratorium that Trump first did back a year ago was extended twice, including by Biden.

So we have sort of two administrations doing this. Then it expired.

That moratorium expired on July 31st. This is a new moratorium.

Now, is it really new? I'll quote Ilya Soman, a professor and guy who writes on reason, blog up new moratorium. Same as the old moratorium.

Right. So legally, it's not going to make much of a difference. But let me go over a few things about it at one.

Where is this authority coming from? So section 264A authorizes the secretary of HHS quote to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the states or possessions or from one state or possession into any other state or possession.

And quote, so just to put that in some late terms, the secretary of HHS can do anything to prevent the spread of any communicable disease that might come from a foreign country.

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