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The dean of the Capitol press corps, senior executive editor Paul Burka joined the staff of Texas Monthly one year after the magazine’s founding, in 1973. For nearly forty years he has led the magazine’s political coverage and spearheaded its storied roundup of the Best and Worst Legislators each biennium. A lifelong Texan, he was born in Galveston, graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in history, and received a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.
Burka is a member of the State Bar of Texas and spent five years as an attorney with the Texas Legislature, where he served as counsel to the Senate Natural Resources Committee.
Burka won a National Magazine Award for reporting excellence in 1985 and the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and teaches at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a frequent guest discussing politics on national news programs on MSNBC, Fox, NBC, and CNN.
I was gratified today to open up my computer and see the news that a federal judge in Corpus Christi has struck down Texas's voter ID law. In past years, the Supreme Court has upheld the validity of Voter ID laws, most notably in the Indiana case of 2008's Crawford vs. Marion County, and in 2013 it struck down a key section of the Voting Rights Act, meaning that a number of states, including Texas, would no longer be subject to federal preclearance before changing voting rules. As the Brennan Center notes, the state announced that the voter ID law would be implemented on the day Shelby County was decided.
There has never been any doubt in my mind, though, that Voter ID is all about voter suppression, notwithstanding Greg Abbott's claims to the contrary. Anyone who sat through the heated Senate debate on the subject in 2011 could not have failed to get it, and people following this issue since then may have been influenced by the widely noticed recanting by distinguished jurist Richard Posner--who wrote the majority opinion in the circuit court's decision on the Indiana case in 2007, but wrote last year that such laws are now "widely regarded as a means of voter suppression rather than of fraud prevention." The opinion from the Corpus Christi judge, Nelva Gonzales Ramos, makes a strong case against Voter ID as well (PDF), calling it "an unconstitutional poll tax."
None of this can be good news for the attorney general, who reacted to yesterday's ruling by promising to appeal it to the Fifth Circuit. He may find the Fifth Circuit more receptive than Judge Gonzales Ramos--who is, as Republicans were quick to note, an Obama appointee--but he is facing likely defeats in future cases concerning same-sex marriage and redistricting. His best shot at a win is the school finance case before the Texas Supreme Court. He'll probably win that one. The Court is in the tank for the state, but then what do you expect from a body that consists primarily of judges appointed by Rick Perry.
THU OCTOBER 9, 2014 4:45 PM
Next Up: The Global War on Jackalopes
by ERICA GRIEDER
Yesterday Dan Patrick, the Republican nominee for lieutenant-governor, released a new television ad arguing that the pragmatic approach to illegal immigration favored by his Democractic opponent, Leticia Van de Putte, has left Americans vulnerable "while ISIS terrorists threaten to cross our border and kill Americans."
He's referring, implicitly, to the United States's southern border with Mexico, and Patrick is not the only Republican to be raising this specter. Last month Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, said that he "had reason to believe" that four terror suspects--not affiliated with ISIS, but affiliated with other terrorist organizations--had been apprehended in Texas on September 10th. Several days ago Duncan Hunter, a Republican representative from California, told Fox News host Greta van Susteren that "at least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas."
There are many substantive disagreements between Patrick and Van de Putte about illegal immigration and border security, and Patrick has been calling for a greater focus on border security for years, but since he dragged ISIS into it, let's talk about that. Hypothetically speaking, an ISiS fighter could try to enter the United States by sneaking across the border into Texas, but the "evidence" cited in all three cases doesn't stand up. In reality there is no evidence that any ISIS fighters have illegally entered Texas, and no evidence that any are even making a serious attempt to do so.
I was gratified today to open up my computer and see the news that a federal judge in Corpus Christi has struck down Texas's voter ID law. In past years, the Supreme Court has upheld the validity of Voter ID laws, most notably in the Indiana case of 2008's Crawford vs. Marion County, and in 2013 it struck down a key section of the Voting Rights Act, meaning that a number of states, including Texas, would no longer be subject to federal preclearance before changing voting rules. As the Brennan Center notes, the state announced that the voter ID law would be implemented on the day Shelby County was decided.
There has never been any doubt in my mind, though, that Voter ID is all about voter suppression, notwithstanding Greg Abbott's claims to the contrary. Anyone who sat through the heated Senate debate on the subject in 2011 could not have failed to get it, and people following this issue since then may have been influenced by the widely noticed recanting by distinguished jurist Richard Posner--who wrote the majority opinion in the circuit court's decision on the Indiana case in 2007, but wrote last year that such laws are now "widely regarded as a means of voter suppression rather than of fraud prevention." The opinion from the Corpus Christi judge, Nelva Gonzales Ramos, makes a strong case against Voter ID as well (PDF), calling it "an unconstitutional poll tax."
None of this can be good news for the attorney general, who reacted to yesterday's ruling by promising to appeal it to the Fifth Circuit. He may find the Fifth Circuit more receptive than Judge Gonzales Ramos--who is, as Republicans were quick to note, an Obama appointee--but he is facing likely defeats in future cases concerning same-sex marriage and redistricting. His best shot at a win is the school finance case before the Texas Supreme Court. He'll probably win that one. The Court is in the tank for the state, but then what do you expect from a body that consists primarily of judges appointed by Rick Perry.
THU OCTOBER 9, 2014 4:45 PM
Next Up: The Global War on Jackalopes
by ERICA GRIEDER
Yesterday Dan Patrick, the Republican nominee for lieutenant-governor, released a new television ad arguing that the pragmatic approach to illegal immigration favored by his Democractic opponent, Leticia Van de Putte, has left Americans vulnerable "while ISIS terrorists threaten to cross our border and kill Americans."
He's referring, implicitly, to the United States's southern border with Mexico, and Patrick is not the only Republican to be raising this specter. Last month Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, said that he "had reason to believe" that four terror suspects--not affiliated with ISIS, but affiliated with other terrorist organizations--had been apprehended in Texas on September 10th. Several days ago Duncan Hunter, a Republican representative from California, told Fox News host Greta van Susteren that "at least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas."
There are many substantive disagreements between Patrick and Van de Putte about illegal immigration and border security, and Patrick has been calling for a greater focus on border security for years, but since he dragged ISIS into it, let's talk about that. Hypothetically speaking, an ISiS fighter could try to enter the United States by sneaking across the border into Texas, but the "evidence" cited in all three cases doesn't stand up. In reality there is no evidence that any ISIS fighters have illegally entered Texas, and no evidence that any are even making a serious attempt to do so.
The dean of the Capitol press corps, senior executive editor Paul Burka joined the staff of Texas Monthly one year after the magazine’s founding, in 1973. For nearly forty years he has led the magazine’s political coverage and spearheaded its storied roundup of the Best and Worst Legislators each biennium. A lifelong Texan, he was born in Galveston, graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in history, and received a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.
Burka is a member of the State Bar of Texas and spent five years as an attorney with the Texas Legislature, where he served as counsel to the Senate Natural Resources Committee.
Burka won a National Magazine Award for reporting excellence in 1985 and the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and teaches at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a frequent guest discussing politics on national news programs on MSNBC, Fox, NBC, and CNN.
I was gratified today to open up my computer and see the news that a federal judge in Corpus Christi has struck down Texas's voter ID law. In past years, the Supreme Court has upheld the validity of Voter ID laws, most notably in the Indiana case of 2008's Crawford vs. Marion County, and in 2013 it struck down a key section of the Voting Rights Act, meaning that a number of states, including Texas, would no longer be subject to federal preclearance before changing voting rules. As the Brennan Center notes, the state announced that the voter ID law would be implemented on the day Shelby County was decided.
There has never been any doubt in my mind, though, that Voter ID is all about voter suppression, notwithstanding Greg Abbott's claims to the contrary. Anyone who sat through the heated Senate debate on the subject in 2011 could not have failed to get it, and people following this issue since then may have been influenced by the widely noticed recanting by distinguished jurist Richard Posner--who wrote the majority opinion in the circuit court's decision on the Indiana case in 2007, but wrote last year that such laws are now "widely regarded as a means of voter suppression rather than of fraud prevention." The opinion from the Corpus Christi judge, Nelva Gonzales Ramos, makes a strong case against Voter ID as well (PDF), calling it "an unconstitutional poll tax."
None of this can be good news for the attorney general, who reacted to yesterday's ruling by promising to appeal it to the Fifth Circuit. He may find the Fifth Circuit more receptive than Judge Gonzales Ramos--who is, as Republicans were quick to note, an Obama appointee--but he is facing likely defeats in future cases concerning same-sex marriage and redistricting. His best shot at a win is the school finance case before the Texas Supreme Court. He'll probably win that one. The Court is in the tank for the state, but then what do you expect from a body that consists primarily of judges appointed by Rick Perry.
THU OCTOBER 9, 2014 4:45 PM
Next Up: The Global War on Jackalopes
by ERICA GRIEDER
Yesterday Dan Patrick, the Republican nominee for lieutenant-governor, released a new television ad arguing that the pragmatic approach to illegal immigration favored by his Democractic opponent, Leticia Van de Putte, has left Americans vulnerable "while ISIS terrorists threaten to cross our border and kill Americans."
He's referring, implicitly, to the United States's southern border with Mexico, and Patrick is not the only Republican to be raising this specter. Last month Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, said that he "had reason to believe" that four terror suspects--not affiliated with ISIS, but affiliated with other terrorist organizations--had been apprehended in Texas on September 10th. Several days ago Duncan Hunter, a Republican representative from California, told Fox News host Greta van Susteren that "at least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas."
There are many substantive disagreements between Patrick and Van de Putte about illegal immigration and border security, and Patrick has been calling for a greater focus on border security for years, but since he dragged ISIS into it, let's talk about that. Hypothetically speaking, an ISiS fighter could try to enter the United States by sneaking across the border into Texas, but the "evidence" cited in all three cases doesn't stand up. In reality there is no evidence that any ISIS fighters have illegally entered Texas, and no evidence that any are even making a serious attempt to do so.
I was gratified today to open up my computer and see the news that a federal judge in Corpus Christi has struck down Texas's voter ID law. In past years, the Supreme Court has upheld the validity of Voter ID laws, most notably in the Indiana case of 2008's Crawford vs. Marion County, and in 2013 it struck down a key section of the Voting Rights Act, meaning that a number of states, including Texas, would no longer be subject to federal preclearance before changing voting rules. As the Brennan Center notes, the state announced that the voter ID law would be implemented on the day Shelby County was decided.
There has never been any doubt in my mind, though, that Voter ID is all about voter suppression, notwithstanding Greg Abbott's claims to the contrary. Anyone who sat through the heated Senate debate on the subject in 2011 could not have failed to get it, and people following this issue since then may have been influenced by the widely noticed recanting by distinguished jurist Richard Posner--who wrote the majority opinion in the circuit court's decision on the Indiana case in 2007, but wrote last year that such laws are now "widely regarded as a means of voter suppression rather than of fraud prevention." The opinion from the Corpus Christi judge, Nelva Gonzales Ramos, makes a strong case against Voter ID as well (PDF), calling it "an unconstitutional poll tax."
None of this can be good news for the attorney general, who reacted to yesterday's ruling by promising to appeal it to the Fifth Circuit. He may find the Fifth Circuit more receptive than Judge Gonzales Ramos--who is, as Republicans were quick to note, an Obama appointee--but he is facing likely defeats in future cases concerning same-sex marriage and redistricting. His best shot at a win is the school finance case before the Texas Supreme Court. He'll probably win that one. The Court is in the tank for the state, but then what do you expect from a body that consists primarily of judges appointed by Rick Perry.
THU OCTOBER 9, 2014 4:45 PM
Next Up: The Global War on Jackalopes
by ERICA GRIEDER
Yesterday Dan Patrick, the Republican nominee for lieutenant-governor, released a new television ad arguing that the pragmatic approach to illegal immigration favored by his Democractic opponent, Leticia Van de Putte, has left Americans vulnerable "while ISIS terrorists threaten to cross our border and kill Americans."
He's referring, implicitly, to the United States's southern border with Mexico, and Patrick is not the only Republican to be raising this specter. Last month Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, said that he "had reason to believe" that four terror suspects--not affiliated with ISIS, but affiliated with other terrorist organizations--had been apprehended in Texas on September 10th. Several days ago Duncan Hunter, a Republican representative from California, told Fox News host Greta van Susteren that "at least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas."
There are many substantive disagreements between Patrick and Van de Putte about illegal immigration and border security, and Patrick has been calling for a greater focus on border security for years, but since he dragged ISIS into it, let's talk about that. Hypothetically speaking, an ISiS fighter could try to enter the United States by sneaking across the border into Texas, but the "evidence" cited in all three cases doesn't stand up. In reality there is no evidence that any ISIS fighters have illegally entered Texas, and no evidence that any are even making a serious attempt to do so.
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