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Do you care to comment on what Paxton and Vassar had to say below??
If you encouraged somebody to go to a massage place that was open(because as you say...they voluntarily closed down..the state had nothing to do with it), and they got in trouble with the law for being there...would you defend them for free?? Or would you be a good lawyer and charge $5K to get them out of trouble??
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The office of Attorney General
Ken Paxton is making clear to county judges that Gov.
Greg Abbott's new executive order
reopening Texas businesses does not include places like barbershops, hair salons and gyms.
When Abbott announced the order Monday, he specifically said he was not yet ready to open those kinds of establishments. But a few local officials, including Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough, have since questioned whether the order actually excludes those businesses. On Tuesday, Keough criticized Abbott's order as "uncommonly vague" and said he would allow all businesses to reopen unless he got further clarification from the state.
A top lawyer in Paxton's office provided that clarification in a
letter to county judges Thursday. Ryan Vassar, deputy attorney general for legal counsel, wrote that Abbott's order is "neither vague nor unenforceable."
“Some services are neither essential nor reopened services for purposes of” Abbott’s order, Vassar said. “These include ‘bars, gyms, public swimming pools, interactive amusement venues such as bowling alleys and video arcades, massage establishments, tattoo studios, piercing studios or cosmetology salons.'"
