Read this from Rockwall Mayor and attorney Jim Pruitt. It sheds a lot of light on the new orders from Governor Abbot. You might be surprised.
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Read this from Rockwall Mayor and attorney Jim Pruitt. It sheds a lot of light on the new orders from Governor Abbot. You might be surprised.
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I’m willing to extend a little–a very little–credit to Gov. Abbott for being clever enough to issue an intentionally unenforceable order. But it doesn’t give him enough to climb out of the hole of all the rest of the poor leadership he has shown. Instead of pushing back against the unconstitutional orders issued by county judges and mayors against business owners, he applauded them for figuring out his previous “clever” order which allows local entities (county, city) to enforce fines against businesses (not individuals) who allow unmasked customers ($1000 per violation, i.e., per person not wearing a mask) in their establishments.
I have been looking for statements by sherrifs and police departments (and their unions) that they won’t be enforcing any of these new orders (similar to the statements they issued in March and April), but there’s been nothin but crickets. Maybe they are relying on their earlier statements, but that’s a mistake IMO because in all the most populated counties where these unconstitutional orders are in place, small business owners are freaked out and scrambling to find ways to serve their patrons while complying with them. (Except for the bars, etc., that the Governor just closed again.)
The part in the most recent order about “no arrests” was no doubt a direct response to the hairdresser in Dallas who was thrown in jail in April. But apparently the Governor would be okay with her being fined $5000, or at least force her to pay for an attorney to argue for her in court that it is not “feasible” for those five customers to wear ear-loop masks or bandannas while their hair is being cut.
It is worse than I thought. A law that is unconstitutional is bad enough but a bad unconstitutional law that is nothing but empty virtue signaling to satisfy the demented left falls to an unprecedented new depth of depravity.
Nice link and I agree with the writer that the Order was one of political expediency to please many detractors, yet has built in loopholes to ‘drive a truck through’.