Mealey's (September 20, 2021, 12:17 PM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Sept. 17 answered a request for opinion from a county attorney as to whether the enforcement of a mask mandate to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 prohibited by an executive order issued by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott could be a violation of the Texas Penal Code, concluding that a court could find under certain facts that a government official intentionally enforcing a mask mandate was in violation....