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Law professor Goodwin Liu may be test case for Obama judicial picks

March 22, 2010

Liberal legal activists came away from last summer's confirmation hearings on Sonia Sotomayor with an empty feeling. It's not so much that they had a beef with Sotomayor, whom they supported. But her pragmatic discourses on judging and her vague remarks on constitutional interpretation were far from the soaring progressive vision of the Constitution that they had waited for years to hear from a Democratic nominee.

Today in History

March 22, 2010

-- Today is Sunday, March 21, the 80th day of 2010. There are 285 days left in the year.

Health reform and the specter of Alf Landon

March 22, 2010

"This is the largest tax bill in history," the Republican leader fumed. The reform "is unjust, unworkable, stupidly drafted and wastefully financed."

Full court press -- and then some

March 22, 2010

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A fair standard for protective orders in Maryland

March 22, 2010

The Post's campaign to denigrate the reasonable standards required by Maryland law to obtain a protective order in cases of alleged domestic abuse ["In Maryland, protection denied," "Remember them in November" editorials, March 4 and 7] has been unfettered by fact or fairness. The Maryland House Judiciary Committee rejected, by a lopsided 15 to 6 vote, the latest attempt to deny citizens due process in these summary proceedings for the following reasons:

Clarke Daniel, Maryland real estate developer, dies at 99

March 22, 2010

Clarke Daniel, a Washington area real estate developer, wanted to build a shopping center on a plot in Riverdale, but it had too many trees. It was December 1947, and earlier that month Elliott Roosevelt, the son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, offered $1 Yule trees from his farm in New York. Roosevelt said he wanted to "make Christians out of Christmas tree dealers."