Posted on 08/12/2021 12:20:49 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Wednesday that local authorities who attempt to undermine his executive order prohibiting government entities from mandating face coverings “will be taken to court.”
“Any school district, public university, or local government official that decides to defy GA-38 — which prohibits gov’t entities from mandating masks — will be taken to court,” Abbott wrote in a tweet:
https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1425590094786965505
“The path forward relies on personal responsibility—not government mandates,” he added.
Abbott’s tweet, which included statements from him and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, came in response to an executive order Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins signed, which mandates face masks for businesses and schools in Dallas County.
“Under Executive Order GA-38, no governmental entity can require or mandate the wearing of masks,” Abbott said in the statement. “The State of Texas will continue to vigorously fight the temporary restraining order to protect the rights and freedoms of all Texans.”
Paxton, who has served as attorney general for the Lone Star State since 2015, also released a statement on Jenkins’ order, including him in the “activist characters” category.
“This isn’t the first time we have dealt with activist characters,” Paxton said. “It’s deja vu all over again. Attention-grabbing judges and mayors have defied executive orders before, when the pandemic first started, and the courts ruled on our side — the law.”
“I’m confident the outcomes to any suits will side with liberty and individual choice, not mandates and government overreach,” he added.
Jenkins’ executive order for Dallas County, which took effect at midnight on Wednesday, requires public schools, childcare centers, and businesses to develop and implement safety plans that include the use of masks for employees and visitors....
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Maybe the 2024 GOP ticket should be DeSantis/Abbott.
When? And why not to jail?
All the big school districts are requiring masks now.
Good...Abbott needs to sic the dogs on the fascists.
When they violate the order.
I would like to see the public people implementing these illegal mask mandates fired, loss of pension and can never again work for the State of Texas.
In Houston we have the lil’Columbian County Judge Lina Hidalgo that restructured Harris County Commissioners Court at great tax dollar waste
In Dallas they have the radioactive jerk Jenkins
Both are prime exhibits that TEXAS NEEDS AN ELECTION AUDIT
Godspeed
My super Governor her in Fla is about to start withholding pay from Florida schools that choose to impose mask mandates.
Uhhhh, any ticket with that PoS Abbott on it is not getting enough votes to win... He may not make it out of his primary in ‘22.
What are you gonna do, Abbot? You let convicts out of prison so they won’t get covid, and you are going to arrest those that don’t wear a mask? I say everyone stop the mask theater at once. Defy the bastards. I will.
Abbott is all talk, in an electioneering year.
Remember, he killed hundred of Texans with his pet power people.
My latest fraud alert would go to Jay Sekulow who yesterday was mocking Governor DeSantis and Abbott for doing just this.
For someone who claims to know the Constitution, Sekulow is a now a joke to me. He was claiming school boards trump parents when making decisions concerning Children’s Welfare.
...never Abbott...
Student X refuses to muzzle up in some Texas classroom. NEA educrats do something to punish Student X, i.e. detention, paddling, failing grades, suspension, expulsion, etc. Mr. and Mrs. X say, “Does this make us rich, or what” as they call the law firm of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe...
I agree!
My question is whether State has appealed that temporary restraining order which has allowed the Leftist scum running our cities here to reimpose mask mandate? Where is the fastest way to get rid of these mandates, much faster than prosecuting random tyrants.
State of Texas AG Ken Paxton is dealing with the prog in the counties and ISDs that are in violation of EO-GA-38.
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That’ll show them.
All hat and no cattle.
That’ll show them.Yeah, especially the Democrat activists who have Lawfare leftists on speed dial.
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