A federal judge has temporarily blocked Tennessee’s government from enforcing a law that prohibits mask mandates in schools. U.S. District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, an Obama appointee, on Friday issued a preliminary injunction in favor of a group of parents who argued that their children with disabilities are more susceptible to serious COVID-19 complications without universal masking. The judge wrote in his 54-page opinion that it is “in the public’s interest to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Tennessee’s schools,” and that the state of Tennessee has “proffered absolutely nothing to suggest that any harm would come from allowing individual school districts to determine what is best for their schools.” Tennessee’s new state law, according to Crenshaw, offers “no protection to students, let alone those that are disabled.” What’s worse, the judge wrote, the state law honors the federal disability rights laws “more in its breach than in its observance.” …