Demonstrators attend a rally calling for an extension of the state's eviction ban until 2022 and the cancellation of rent, in lower Manhattan, New York city on August 11, 2021. - Under pressure from progressive Democrats, US health authorities declar WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is asking the U.S.
Supreme Court to keep an eviction moratorium in place as many families struggle amid the COVID-19 pandemic.The Biden administration filed the court documentMonday in response to a group of Alabama and Georgia landlords asking the court to vacatethe ban last Friday.
The Supreme Court has the case after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected a bid by the landlords to overturn the ban.RELATED: CDC's.