Sid Miller urges judge to void Texas Senate's required COVID-19 tests
With his lawyer objecting to COVID-19 vaccines as "experimental injections" and coronavirus tests as invasive medical procedures, Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller asked a state judge Tuesday to void Texas Senate rules requiring Capitol visitors to obtain a negative test or show proof of vaccination.
"I believe in the statement in the constitution that the citizens of Texas have the right to petition their government. I can't see where it says if they've taken a COVID vaccine, or if they've taken a COVID test, or they take a, you know, strep test or if they take an HIV test," Miller testified.
"I believe in transparency. I believe in open government. And this restricts the public's access to petition their government," he told state District Judge Jan Soifer of Travis County during a three-hour hearing.
Senators unanimously adopted rules for this legislative session that require showing proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test, administered at no cost at the Capitol's north entrance, to get a wristband granting access to a committee hearing room or the gallery overlooking the Senate floor.
Read more: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/05/04/covid-test-lawsuits-texas-sid-miller-dan-patrick-senate/4931261001/
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