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Testimony continues at a court hearing in Washington on whether legislative maps drawn by the Texas Legislature violate the federal Voting Rights Act.

Doug Davis, a senior policy aide to Lt.

Gov. David Dewhurst, is to resume testifying Wednesday morning for the State of Texas. ...

Gov. Rick Perry, Pres. Barack Obama and former Pres. George W. Bush have each made a mark on higher education in Texas.

The former and current president each holds his own opinions on how to shape universities. Potential presidential hopeful Perry is expected to announce his candidacy in the next month, in the midst of growing controversy about his perspective on higher education and funding.

The Daily Texan takes a look at the three politicians’ impacts on higher education.

Consigned to the role of loyal opposition, Texas Democrats are poised to hand another victory to Republicans in next year’s U.S.

Senate election. The lackluster potential and declared Democratic candidates are certain to be outraised, outpolled and outvoted.

That’s a real shame. State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, offers a compelling personal background and political acumen that resonates with moderate and conservative Texas voters.

A voice in the wilderness, Davis is the only Democrat capable of capturing retiring U.S.

Senators approved the final passage of the congressional redistricting map with a vote of 19-12 along party lines.

The map now awaits Gov. Rick Perry’s signature, and according to some Democrats, many lawsuits.

Lt.

Gov. David Dewhurst said lawsuits against the redistricting map will arise soon, but was confident the disputes will not affect the map.

Gov. Rick Perry is expressing “disappointment in lapses” at the Department of Public Safety that allowed an unknown arsonist to torch the Governor’s Mansion earlier this month.

But the spark that set the building ablaze in the early hours of June 8 was set in the offices of the state’s top three political leaders, including Perry, who consistently confuse their radical anti-government ideology with their duty to safeguard the public.

A Virginia company that books high-dollar hunting expeditions is on trial for violating federal laws by allegedly bribing Russian government on behalf of a group of Texas big gamesman, including one of Texas’s top GOP donors, according to a story in this morning’s Houston Chronicle.

Known as the oddest man in state government (emphasis on odd), Lt. Governor David Dewhurst is also frequently the odd man out among the three top Texas leaders.

The other two, Gov,. Rick Perry and Speaker Tom Craddick, have been able to dominate the agenda and make the Houston millionaire largely irrelevant.

David Dewhurst wasted little time before hailing the controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a voter ID bill law in Inidiana that has been criticized as discriminatory and anti-democratic.

“I look forward to passing a fair voter ID law in Texas next year,” Texas’s very own career-rookie lieutenant governor said in a statement.

Today is William Shakespeare’s birthday, which brings us to the topic du jour — Gov. Rick Perry and his announcement last week that he will seek another term in two years.

His announcement may have failed to convince even as many Texans as voted for him last time (39 percent), but that hasn’t stopped him from doing what he does best — making sure people (including us) are talking about him, especially during a slow news month.

Don’t count on it, despite the coincidence of a Dallas Morning News story making the rounds on the same afternoon that Perry pal Pope Benedict is celebrating mass in the nation’s capital.

“When asked whether the gubernatorial field would include Sen.

Kay Bailey Hutchison, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and himself, Mr. Perry responded , ‘I don’t know about them, but it will be Perry in 2010,’” Gromer Jeffers is reporting today.