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[quote="BostonCard" pid='294326' dateline='1603664955']
Texas is making a convention center into a hospital in El Paso.

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-makes-con...al-1541981

Texas is still a ways away from its peak of 10,000 new cases a day (in mid-July), but of course the geographic distribution of those cases within Texas may have changed.

BC

El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego on Sunday afternoon ordered a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew daily due to El Paso's coronavirus crisis.


The curfew will be in effect for both the county and city starting Sunday night and continuing for two weeks. Law enforcement agencies will enforce the curfew along with the face mask requirement and other mandates, he said.

The judge said El Paso's sheriff, police chief and constables had all been directed to enforce the orders, which he indicated has the support of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

https://kvia.com/coronavirus/2020/10/25/...19-crisis/
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No problem with the common sense of the order, but where on God's green earth does a judge get the power to do this?

At least according to this article, the judge is also the top elected executiv.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/26/...s-overflow

As of Sunday, one-third of all the patients in the region’s hospitals had Covid-19, according the county’s curfew order. The top elected executive in El Paso, County Judge Ricardo A. Samaniego, wrote in the order that hospital intensive-care units were completely full.

I'm not sure how local government works in East Texas, but it sounds like he is using his executive authority, not his judicial authority(?)

BC

[BostonCard]

[quote="BostonCard" pid='294326' dateline='1603664955']
Texas is making a convention center into a hospital in El Paso.

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-makes-con...al-1541981

Texas is still a ways away from its peak of 10,000 new cases a day (in mid-July), but of course the geographic distribution of those cases within Texas may have changed.

BC

El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego on Sunday afternoon ordered a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew daily due to El Paso's coronavirus crisis.


The curfew will be in effect for both the county and city starting Sunday night and continuing for two weeks. Law enforcement agencies will enforce the curfew along with the face mask requirement and other mandates, he said.

The judge said El Paso's sheriff, police chief and constables had all been directed to enforce the orders, which he indicated has the support of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

https://kvia.com/coronavirus/2020/10/25/...19-crisis/
[/quote
No problem with the common sense of the order, but where on God's green earth does a judge get the power to do this?

At least according to this article, the judge is also the top elected executiv.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/26/...s-overflow

As of Sunday, one-third of all the patients in the region’s hospitals had Covid-19, according the county’s curfew order. The top elected executive in El Paso, County Judge Ricardo A. Samaniego, wrote in the order that hospital intensive-care units were completely full.

I'm not sure how local government works in East Texas, but it sounds like he is using his executive authority, not his judicial authority(?)

BC