Texas Governor Takes Mask-Ban Fight to State Supreme Court

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is asking the state Supreme Court to jump into his highly charged campaign to smack down county officials who defied his ban on public mask requirements.

The governor and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton decided to escalate the fight to the state’s highest court after two mid-level appeals courts sided with renegade local officials in Dallas and Bexar counties.

“We have taken this mask mandate to the Texas Supreme Court,” Paxton tweeted shortly before midnight Friday. “The rule of law will decide.”

The county officials said surging Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations required the drastic step of ignoring the governor’s edict and instituting mandatory mask rules for all public schools, municipal facilities and public transportation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-governor-takes-mask-ban-fight-to-state-supreme-court/ar-AANkp1p

Abbott believes in freedumb.

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1. How depraved do you have to be to fight so hard to block public health measures during a pandemic?

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3. I'm asking, too

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2. ..The all-Republican Texas Supreme Court hasn't set a timetable for acting on Abbott's request. The

It is just beyond the pale that Abott is putting so many at risk for sickness and death.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-governor-takes-mask-ban-fight-to-state-supreme-court/ar-AANkp1p

.............The all-Republican Texas Supreme Court hasn’t set a timetable for acting on Abbott’s request. The mask-ban fight reprises last year’s battles between the governor and local officials over Covid-related restrictions, which went to the state’s high court on multiple issues. Abbott won those fights, but often in sharply divided opinions that questioned how far a governor’s authority goes during an emergency.

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4. COVID deaths have surpassed New York . ..

and he doesn't even care.

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5. And his court is packed with wingnut a-holes