Posted on 11/10/2021 5:37:43 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order prohibiting mask mandates in schools violates the Americans with Disabilities Act — freeing local officials to again create their own rules.
The order comes after a months long legal dispute between parents, a disability rights organization and Texas officials over whether the state was violating the 1990 law, known as the ADA, by not allowing school districts to require masks. U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel barred Attorney General Ken Paxton from enforcing Abbott’s order.
“The spread of COVID-19 poses an even greater risk for children with special health needs,” Yeakel said. “Children with certain underlying conditions who contract COVID-19 are more likely to experience severe acute biological effects and to require admission to a hospital and the hospital’s intensive-care unit.”
The judge said the governor’s order impedes children with disabilities from the benefits of public schools’ programs, services and activities to which they are entitled.
The advocacy group, Disability Rights Texas, filed the federal lawsuit on behalf of several Texan families in late August against Abbott, Paxton and Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath. It states that the governor’s order and the TEA’s enforcement of it deny children with disabilities access to public education as they are at high risk of illness and death from the virus.
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Pray that God removes these people from their positions of authority. We are in a Spiritual Battle. We need to take authority in Jesus Name over the satanic forces that are trying to take America down.
“If your School mandats masks in Texas, vote with your feet and move to a district that doesn’t.”
F that BS. Kick the commie SOB’s off the school board and get the district back on track.
Besides, homes are outrageously high these dayz.
Speaking of the ADA, I recently had lunch with a group of ladies, one of whom was completely deaf but could lip read.
Guess what? She could not communicate with the masked waiter, and she didn’t/couldn’t communicate to him that the problem was the mask—she probably knew he was required to wear it as a part of his job.
Very sad. Where is the ADA for this? Or the ADA for K-12 deaf children?
Biden is not listening to the courts SOOOOOO why in the hell should Abbott!!!
What is a federal judge doing ruling on state matters?
Wolf is appealing the no-mask mandate ruling by the court. The stay keeps mask mandate in place for now.
We are living through the Tower of Babel v2.0.
When is this issue going to the Supreme Court already? My teen daughter and son are in their second year of masking all day long in high school and college. It breaks my heart daily. (My son did opt to stay in CA for college—so his choice there; he could have gone elsewhere, but still my heart breaks.)
When will it end? Mask optional, yes. Mask mandate, no.
There are no stated metrics in CA after which K-12 masking can be optional. None. Meanwhile mask mandates are being removed in even liberal counties (like mine, Contra Costa). But not for students—even though they have an available vax for them now. There is no logic. Other than the teachers’ unions.
Ignore him. No federal authority.
Abbott should tell the Fed. Judge to go f*** himself and re-issue the E.O.
That's what the libtards do each and every time a court order comes down that they don't like, it's high time we threw their rules right back in their damn' faces and stomped a mudhole in them to boot!!
Violates the ADA??? What a reach. You could make a better case that the mask mandates violate the ADA.
How can federal judge do that? Schools are state?
Judge has the ADA backwards.
The law did NOT prohibit kids from wearing masks, so any kid with disabilities could wear one. The law banned mask MANDATES.
So a minor Federal Judge can over rule a State Governor? Do what Putzker in Illinois does - ignore the court order.
Yeakel is just another libtard robed hack stirring the pot for ol scratch. Frankly, nobody’s doing much listening these dayz.
One of W’s genius appointees!
Yes. I’m praying.
What the hell has this country come to? And in TEXAS. The evil is everywhere now.
well if that the case, some kid allergic to the sun could say all the windows need to be boarded up or a nut allergy means no nuts in the school, why does the vast majority have to bow down to one or two people nowadays? Its how we got all this gay stuff being accepted years ago
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