Third judge blocks Gov. Lee's mask opt out in schools

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A third federal judge has blocked Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's order allowing families to opt out of school mask mandates.

The decision, handed down by U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw late Friday, is the latest development in the ongoing legal battle over Lee's order launched by parents and advocates alarmed over the spike in coronavirus cases in Tennessee's schools.

Lee issued the order in August after a handful of Republican lawmakers demanded the governor call a special session so the GOP-dominant General Assembly could halt mask mandates in schools and other COVID-19 safety measures. Many students have been attending classes without masks ever since as pediatric hospitalizations reached record highs.

Crenshaw's order only applies to Williamson County, an affluent region just south of Nashville. Earlier that day, a separate judge halted Lee's executive order in Knox County. A week prior, another judge indefinitely banned Lee’s order after families argued the governor’s executive order endangered their children.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/third-judge-blocks-gov-lees-mask-opt-out-in-schools/ar-AAOOvG2

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1. For those of you who do not know

Williamson county is where all the rich people had moved so that they don't have to pay taxes in Davidson county, which is where Nashville (and the majority of their offices) are located. Thanks to the job I used to have in Nashville, I had to go to D**kWaver Central (sorry, Brentwood, in Williamson county) a few times. To say it is pretentious is to barely break the surface. And, thanks to their pretty much ruining Brentwood with their posturing and rules that only rich people can follow, they have made that place all but untenable. So, they have taken over East Nashville, which is where I used to live and loved it. I also had to move thanks to the wealthy moving into the area because they wanted to live in the 'new, eclectic East', and then started to force changes that are basically turning East into another Brentwood. And after that, they will move on to another part of town, ruin it, and move on like locusts. Gentrification is evil as far as I am concerned. The fact that this is an issue in that county is yet another example of how the rich think they can do whatever they want and the rest of us just have to get over it. Well, now it is your time to 'get over it'. And, based on past history, we all know how that is going to work out. (Namely that they won't get over anything.)