Their gender calls for a public hearing.
Before we do that.
Under the authority that I have is a
Constitutional County Court judge.
I'm going to require,
based on a long conversation
with you T Southwestern that where
they called me last night that we
do wear our mask in this courtroom.
Given the. The. Evolving
situation with the delta buyers,
the recommendations of the CDC.
I believe one of my colleagues has a.
Question for the District Attorney
you want to make your master question.
Yeah, George Jenkins, just.
Let us know about this without any
notice that we'd be doing this move
toward masking is a move like this.
By a county judge in accordance with the
governor's most recent GA, I believe 38.
Essentially stripping the power of
local governments from requiring
masks in their buildings.
Yeah, and the authority, by the way,
is under Supreme Court order of 40.
As this is a courtroom not under G38. That's
that's that's going to
be an interesting interpretation, but.
I guess there there will be.
The question then is is this
a courtroom as. Anticipated
under that. That Supreme Court.
Well.
Do you want me to discuss this publicly,
or would you like to get your legal advice?
In executive session, if he needs
legal advice to put a mask on,
we can adjourn to breathe while
he's asked me a legal question.
Alright, we're going to adjourn
very briefly, and we we have a a
related issue on executive already.
Alright, so we're going to adjourn
very briefly for that. Back
in session, we've
had our ire. A consultation I'm
going to make a quick record as to.
This decision and then I'm going
to ask everyone to comply with it.
I'd certainly don't want to
exclude any court members.
From our session,
if we have a court member or staff
member who feels strongly that
they just should not wear a mask,
then we have a virtual option for them and
will ask them to use that virtual option.
The next resolution is now past 9:30.
Commissioner cuts that you refuse
to wear your mask and OK.
The authority under the governor's order.
In fact, this morning I went to
Starbucks and I have a mask,
and if you did things the right
way and weren't abusive of your
power and very demeaning and
unfortunately condescending to your
cordinates certainly don't mean to be.
Would you voluntarily join us
in a virtual manner?
I don't think that's the appropriate
thing to do. I don't think you
have the authority to order
me to do that.
I'm going to ask the bailiff now
to clear the courtroom of people
who refuse to wear their mask.
And I only see one,
and that would be Commissioner Kotson
commissioner 'cause we can recess for
a moment for you to reconnect with
us because we don't want you to miss Court.
Bailable you please escort
Commissioner cuts to his office
so he can join us for court.
Sign out here so I can sign up there.
We will, we can consider their you
signed on. You're going to settle on
your Surface Pro.
That's what I'm
being ordered to do.
Sign on however you like.
I cannot you. You're ordering
that I cannot say here
in the mission
score. I'd love for you to stay here with
a mask on OK, but if I continue to not
have a mask, I cannot be in this court
and complete my elected duty here.
We want you to complete
your elected duty here.
If you refuse to wear a mask,
you can complete it virtually upstairs.
It's clear for the record.
All right, our next resolution is.