Per the article, judges can reimpose some restrictions if hospitalizations go above 15% for more than a week but they specifically cannot do mask mandates. Only way the mandate returns is if Abbot mandates it himself.
Yeah he pulled state pre-emption on them to prevent them from issuing new mask orders right away, and gave them a bone with that ability to implement restrictions again if their hospital district goes above 15% (which is hilarious because that's kind of hard to hit).
Per the article, judges can reimpose some restrictions if hospitalizations go above 15% for more than a week but they specifically cannot do mask mandates. Only way the mandate returns is if Abbot mandates it himself.
Yeah he pulled state pre-emption on them to prevent them from issuing new mask orders right away, and gave them a bone with that ability to implement restrictions again if their hospital district goes above 15% (which is hilarious because that's kind of hard to hit).
Which article was this? Trying to find that info.
I was going off the headline link from the Bongino Report yesterday. I think it was KSAT?
I actually read the order itself and you're right:
https://open.texas.gov/uploads/files/organization/opentexas/EO-GA-34-opening-Texas-response-to-COVID-disaster-IMAGE-03-02-2021.pdf
Yeah, the local tyrants in the county courts are going apeshit over this, they wouldn't care if they weren't having their BS severely curtailed.