CNN reported last night that the Texas Sypreme Court denied Governor Gregg Abbott’s effort to intervene in a court case overruling his decision to block mask mandates.
The Supreme Court of Texas refused Gov. Greg Abbott’s request to intervene Thursday in the case of mask mandates established by several local jurisdictions.
As a result, the lower court ruling allowing school districts to require masks in their schools still stands.
Abbott wanted the Supreme Court to rule quickly, superseding a state court rule that says that unless there is a compelling reason to not do so, a petition for the court to order a government official to take an action must first go to the Texas Court of Appeals, which is the intermediate appellate court, before it can go to the Texas Supreme Court.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Sanity!
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Governor Abbottoir
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So nice to read this good news with my morning coffee
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Thank goodness for checks and balance! If you want reckless social policies, vote for a Libertarian. They don’t even support a civil society.
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This is not a decision on the merits, only a ruling on improper procedure. Perhaps the correct decision will come “after everything else has been tried” (to paraphrase Churchill). Even then, there is still the matter of implementation and enforcement in our current “society” of strongmen, ignoramuses, conspiracy theorists. and compulsive, pseudo-super patriotic followers to whom medical science is just another belief system.
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