In a January 13 article, Washington Post staff writer Charles Lane used false and misleading comparisons to report that, during his recent Supreme Court nomination hearings, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. "did not embrace some of the most controversial legal views" of conservative Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Lane suggested that Alito distanced himself from strict constructionism, a method -- which Lane wrote falsely that Scalia has embraced -- of "interpret[ing] only the literal text of statutes and the Constitution." Lane also suggested that Alito distinguished himself from Thomas by placing "much greater emphasis on precedent" in determining whether to overrule a previously upheld constitutional principle.
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