Rep. Cori Bush has been sleeping on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. The far-left Missouri Democrat and her allies are protesting Saturday’s expiration of the federal government’s order banning evictions nationwide. But a disturbing aspect of the congresswoman’s stunt makes this much more than a mere dispute over housing policy.

For context, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued in September 2020 a unilateral mandate essentially prohibiting the eviction of nonpaying tenants in most circumstances. And the countless middle- and working-class landlords affected by this de facto seizure of millions of properties were not compensated. This makes the so-called “eviction moratorium,” at absolute best, constitutionally suspect.