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We have written about the travails of University of Texas regent Wallace Hall who, because of his investigation into UT practices, became a bête noire to the political establishment in the state capitol. wallace hall jr texas regent As we noted, the nominally Republican speaker of the Texas state house called for an investigation of Hall, and, since then, at least one assemblyman has called for Hall’s impeachment. “Apparently, the more questions he asked, the more feathers he ruffled,” State Representative David Simpson noted in an open letter to his colleagues. “Allegedly rushing to the defense of UT, a legislator...

HOUSTON — Some of the least-qualified graduates of the University of Texas School of Law in recent years have high-level connections in the Legislature, which may explain how they got into the prestigious law school in the first place. A months-long Watchdog.org analysis of political influence on the admissions process at UT Law found there’s some truth, after all, to the old line about who you know mattering more than what you know. We found dozens of Longhorns who don’t know enough to be lawyers but know somebody important in the Legislature. Two of those mediocre students are legislators themselves....