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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,283 posts)
Sat Jul 1, 2023, 07:27 PM Jul 2023

Texas Supreme Court says Gov. Greg Abbott's COVID ban on local mask rules was lawful

Settling a heated pandemic-era debate between Gov. Greg Abbott and leaders of the state’s major urban areas, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the governor had the legal authority to forbid local officials from requiring residents to wear masks in order to slow the spread of COVID-19.

As a contagious form of the virus raged in summer 2021 and threatened to push hospitals to the brink of their capacity limits, several local leaders put in place their own orders mandating that residents wear masks in certain public settings like businesses and schools — in defiance of Abbott’s own emergency order banning such masking rules.

City and county officials balked at Abbott using his emergency powers to block public health measures intended to respond to the emergency. But the court ruled that state law gives Abbott the authority to do just that.

“We hold that, during a declared disaster, the Governor has the lawful authority to prohibit local officials from imposing mask requirements in response to a contagious disease,” Justice Jimmy Blacklock wrote in an opinion handed down Friday morning.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-supreme-court-says-gov-180332464.html

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Texas Supreme Court says Gov. Greg Abbott's COVID ban on local mask rules was lawful (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2023 OP
scary Blues Heron Jul 2023 #1
And here we have a RWNJ "supreme court" joshdawg Jul 2023 #2
Abbot will be the GOP 2024 nominee bucolic_frolic Jul 2023 #3
Legal but stupid like voting for repubicans. IA8IT Jul 2023 #4
COVID is contagious, pregnancy is not, but spreading COVID is okay, making decisions about Timeflyer Jul 2023 #5
Didn't read the entire article TexasDem69 Jul 2023 #7
The only bright star I see in all these Texas laws is consequences. Survival of the fittest. ratchiweenie Jul 2023 #6
Yet it's the fastest growing state TexasDem69 Jul 2023 #8
Harris County, home to Houston, was Texas's largest-gaining county, adding a net 1,366,674 people du Fullduplexxx Jul 2023 #9

Timeflyer

(2,632 posts)
5. COVID is contagious, pregnancy is not, but spreading COVID is okay, making decisions about
Sat Jul 1, 2023, 08:04 PM
Jul 2023

your own body when pregnant is not ok. And don't even think about regulating guns!

 

TexasDem69

(2,317 posts)
7. Didn't read the entire article
Sat Jul 1, 2023, 08:34 PM
Jul 2023

But seems like the question was about the governosr’a power, not whether he mad the right decision.

ratchiweenie

(7,923 posts)
6. The only bright star I see in all these Texas laws is consequences. Survival of the fittest.
Sat Jul 1, 2023, 08:24 PM
Jul 2023

They think they are protecting their way of life and their familes when, with all the guns and castle doctrins and lack of abortions and not wearin masks, ect., ect., ect.... they won't survive very long in the chain of life.

Fullduplexxx

(8,261 posts)
9. Harris County, home to Houston, was Texas's largest-gaining county, adding a net 1,366,674 people du
Sat Jul 1, 2023, 10:52 PM
Jul 2023

Harris County, home to Houston, was Texas’s largest-gaining county, adding a net 1,366,674 people during the 22-year period. And the population of Rockwall, the state's fastest-growing county, nearly tripled (182% growth).

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