Howard Bashman is trying to supplant my role as the blogosphere’s premier L.A. Times fact-checker — and is doing a pretty good job of it, too. Howard rips apart an L.A. Times op-ed that will run tomorrow. According to Howard:

In the second to last paragraph of the op-ed, Professor [Marci A. ] Hamilton writes: “If one were looking for a predominant influence on the Supreme Court, it would seem to be Harvard Law School, not Catholicism. In addition to those listed above, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David H. Souter and Stephen G. Breyer attended Harvard Law, which means that if Alito is confirmed, the school will have seven graduates on the high court.” Unfortunately, the statement that “if Alito is confirmed, [Harvard Law School] will have seven graduates on the high court” is wrong in at least three different ways.

Go to Howard’s post to see what those are. It’s nicely done, with hyperlinks that prove his various assertions.

I’ll pass this along to the Times‘s Readers’ Representative, who has a whale of a correction to issue.