Dallas County judge asks for temporary restraining order against governor's mask mandate ban

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins asked a Texas court Monday for a temporary restraining order against portions of Gov. Greg Abbott's July executive order involving mask mandates as "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. "Governor Abbott has decided on a course of action that prohibits face-covering mandates on a state-wide basis. 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.