ARKANSAS GOP GOVERNOR SAYS HE REGRETS BAN ON MASK MANDATES AS COVID-19 CASES SURGE   Kentucky couple with ties to Naples shot to death Republican Brooks seeks immunity for Jan. 6 speech   Arkansa

ARKANSAS GOP GOVERNOR SAYS HE REGRETS BAN ON MASK MANDATES AS COVID-19 CASES SURGE   Kentucky couple with ties to Naples shot to death Republican Brooks seeks immunity for Jan. 6 speech   Arkansa

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ARKANSAS GOP GOVERNOR SAYS HE REGRETS BAN ON MASK MANDATES AS COVID-19 CASES SURGE

 

Kentucky couple with ties to Naples shot to death

Republican Brooks seeks immunity for Jan. 6 speech

 

Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday he regrets approving a statewide ban on face mask mandates earlier this year and has called the state Legislature into a special session in an effort to amend the law.

 

Asa Hutchinson wearing a suit and tie smiling at the camera© Win McNamee/Getty

"In hindsight, I wish that had not become law," Hutchinson said during a news conference. "But it is the law, and the only chance we have is either to amend it or for the courts to say that it has an unconstitutional foundation."