Greg Abbott, violator of the Texas Constitution?And what's up with ConservaDem Kim Ogg?

And the Texas Supreme Court, an aider and abetter?

Abbott retroactively removed criminal confinement from his orders about closure of certain businesses, and therefore ordered that the convicted Shelley Luther be released. The Texas Supreme Court agreed.

But, is an executive order the functional equivalent of a law? Texas' constitution, like the federal one, explicitly prohibits ex post facto law.

Second question. Per the story link, why didn't Harris County DA Kim Ogg cite (and maybe arrest) the stylists who "serviced" Briscoe Cain and the other legiscritter? I'm presuming this did not happen.

Oh, and contra wingnuts? Shelley Luther is still a convicted criminal.

As for the rest of Abbott's statement? Texas still remains 48th in the nation in testing rate per capita, and still has many rural counties without hospitals and almost no other means of testing period. Meanwhile, he's flat-out lying on stats. Active cases and new daily cases both trended upward again starting near the end of April.

Meanwhile, the best EXTREMELY hot take?  Dale Hansen, of course:



Boom.

Meanwhile, fuck Ted Cruz and his law-disrespecting privileged white ass.

As for poor titty baby Shelley Luther? Here's the info on her LLC-incorporated business. The Lewisville residence at which it's located? Valued at a cool $1.5 million.

Shelley herself owns other houses and properties. Suburban slumlord? A house, it seems, plus a mother-in-law cottage, or something, on the same site, both in Pilot Point. Combined value? $400K.

(Update, June 20: Somehow, I missed this late May Richie Whitt piece at the Dallas Observer. Beyond what I note above, it's a wild animal ranch as well as house at that Pilot Point site. She also gets child support money from not just one but two ex-husbands. And she took a Caribbean cruise during this time. The big house, though, is ex-hubby No. 2's, it seems.

That said, she now has a live-in boyfriends, and the Religious Right portion of her backers hasn't commented on her being a two-time marriage loser and now living with someone outside of wedlock. If a black person did that?

And found? Picture with story of nightclub singer/musician "Shelley Porterfield" before divorce No. 1, singing in Cleburne.)

Per the "Kim Ogg" headline? The place where Briscoe Cain got his hair cut? Cite the place if Linda Hidalgo won't. Better yet, call a grand jury. No, really. And see if you can't tie enough threads together to charge Cain with engaging in organized criminal activity, under the stance that an executive order that has the same penalties as a Class A misdemeanor IS a Class A misdemeanor.