Texas Governor Fights Back as Resistance to Mask Ban Spreads
- AG Paxton decries ‘activist characters’ pushing mask mandates
- Covid-19 surges in Texas, overwhelming urban hospital ICUs
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Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott escalated the fight over his ban on local face mask rules, vowing along with his attorney general Wednesday to drag into court “any school district, public university or local government official that decides to defy” the statewide edict.
But even as the two said they would immediately ask a state appeals court to wade into the fight, resistance to their campaign against mandatory masks was spreading. On Wednesday, school district and municipal officials in Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and Houston continued to roll out new masking rules aimed at slowing the rampage of Covid-19 across one of the nation’s hottest infection zones.