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A court case about UT’s use of race in the admissions process is being appealed for review by the U.S.

Supreme Court.

The Governor’s reason for vetoing the expunction bill:

House Bill No. 3481 would authorize the expunction of criminal records, including law enforcement case files, 180 days after an arrest if no formal misdemeanor or felony charges have been filed.

Current statutory provisions require that the statute of limitations for the particular offense, usually at least two years, expire before criminal records may be destroyed, including in cases involving misdemeanor offenses.

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.

With that oh-so-obvious headline, the Sunday front page of The Man just about summed where we sit leading into tomorrow’s Election Day festivities.

Who turns out is the question that decides most elections, with the possible exceptions of Jim Wells County’s Box 13 back in 1948 or the Supreme Court decision in 200’s Bush v.

Gore.

The Democratic presidential campaigns will try to provide the answer in one final push today, with Hillary Clinton scheduling a last-minute town hall rally at Burger Center and Barack Obama set to spend Election Night in San Antonio.