ULTA - Texas Governor faces legal setbacks against ban on mask mandates

Local leaders won a pair of court victories in a revolt against Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates, The New York Times reports. This has cleared a way for the people to at least temporarily require face coverings, needed to combat the surging cases due to Delta variant. The first setback came in Bexar County, which includes San Antonio. Masks can be mandated in public schools and other public buildings there for now after a Texas judge ruled in favor of local officials, in major rebukes to Governor Greg Abbott's efforts to ban local mask orders across Texas. In San Antonio, Judge Antonia Arteaga granted the local officials a temporary restraining order blocking Abbott’s action. The second blow was delivered by a district judge Tonya Parker in Dallas County who ruled that Governor Abbott’s order improperly prevented local officials from protecting residents during an emergency. “Dallas County citizens

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Texas Governor faces legal setbacks against ban on mask mandates