(CNN) Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins asked a Texas court Monday for a temporary restraining order seeking to hold portions of Gov. Greg Abbott's July executive order involving mask mandates "unenforceable," according to a statement from the judge's office. Abbott last month issued an executive order that combined many of his earlier orders on Covid-19, which included language that no governmental entity, including school districts, could require mask wearing. Irrespective of his motivations or the dangerous nature of such a decision, it is within his legislatively-delegated authority to decide to mandate face coverings or decline to do so," Jenkins writes in the document. According to the court documents, the Democratic county judge writes that the statute that Abbott relied upon in his executive order does not grant him the authority to issue such an order.

Source: CNN August 10, 2021 04:12 UTC