Thanks. This is just from the Osler McCarthy email subscription, which isn’t really intended for lay public consumption, but I wanted to get the news out for anyone who has been following.
One thing I would add is that this is all temporary and only the beginning. The underlying orders stayed by this order are TROs, which will expire tomorrow and 8/24, when the temporary injunction hearings are currently set in the respective trial courts. I expect each district judge (both Dems) to grant a TI against the governor, but the governor will appeal. That will result in automatic suspension of the TI. The courts of appeals may (and probably will, because they are both majority Dem) grant the counties temporary relief reinstating the TIs under Rule 29.3 of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. The governor will petition the Texas Supreme Court for mandamus from those orders, which the Supreme Court will probably grant.
Yep.