Texas AG warns cities against enforcing stricter coronavirus restrictions than state

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Tuesday warned cities not to enforce stricter coronavirus restrictions than those the state government has mandated as it moves into a phased reopening.

Paxton wrote letters to Dallas, Bexar and Travis counties and the mayors of San Antonio and Austin reprimanding them for an array of “strict and unconstitutional” orders that contradict more lax statewide measures on issues such as wearing masks, regulations around places of worship, shelter-in-place orders and more.

“Unfortunately, a few Texas counties and cities seem to have confused recommendations with requirements and have grossly exceeded state law to impose their own will on private citizens and businesses. These letters seek to avoid any public confusion as we reopen the state,” Paxton said in a statement. “I trust that local officials will act quickly to correct any orders that unlawfully conflict with Texas law and Governor Abbott’s Executive Orders.”

Paxton specifically cited local measures that mandate houses of worship limit the number of people on their premises and orders requiring the use of masks.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/497445-texas-ag-warns-cities-against-enforcing-stricter-coronavirus

[sfstaxprep]

1. It's A Full On Fucking War!

They want us to die, so they can save their Fucked Up party.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. GOP wants us working or dead, either way they are happy, or deported.

When we finally understand at our gut level that we are in a real war, we might start to do something.

[BigmanPigman]

3. But what about the number of "new cases" still increasing in the state, dude?!?!

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/

[rockfordfile]

4. If you're in Texas and you get the virus, you should be able to hold that un-American AG accountable

[roamer65]

5. The cities should just ignore him and do it anyway.

[Laelth]

7. He's just posturing for the base.

He’s full of hot air and would probably lose in Court if he sued any of these government entities for public safety regulations that are more strict than the state’s minimal regulations.

-Laelth

[Liberal In Texas]

14. I agree. We should ignore him and let him take the county to court.

It's the Deadbeat Donnie way after all. Tie everything up in court.

[scarletwoman]

6. Maybe I'm a bad person, but I have no problem with "houses of worship" doing whatever the hell

they want.

If a bunch of christianists want to risk sickness and death for their "religious freedom", it's fine by me.

With any luck for the rest of us, this could result in a possible reduction of their numbers.

Would that be such a bad thing?

[Skittles]

9. because they take it home to family members, friends, coworkers?

[scarletwoman]

11. You're right - but if they themselves refuse to consider those possibilities, then it's on them.

[dawg]

16. Yeah, but you still die when one of them coughs on you in the grocery store.

It isn't just about them.

[Submariner]

8. Accuse Paxton and Abbott of attempted negligent homicide

for ignoring the Federal Medical expert Dr Fauci's recommendations to test, track and open safely.

[keithbvadu2]

10. The party of big gubmint.

The party of big gubmint.

[walkingman]

12. Abbott is merely a puppet for Trump

State leadership is far more concerned about the economy than the citizens of Texas. This is nothing new - it has been this way for 25 years. In the minds of the Abbott administration, "Bidness" is far more important than citizens or their lives. The Gov. needs to keep his nose out of the local communities. Mayors and County Judges know far better what the local governments situation is and what the best policies will be going forward.

[tanyev]

13. So GOPers think rural areas should be able to set their own looser rules

because they have very few cases, but are outraged when urban areas set their own stricter rules based on the number of cases they are seeing. Got it. It's just like their intermittent states' rights obsessions.

[Paladin]

15. Fuck you dead, Paxton. You piece-of-shit criminal. (nt)