Goofy Washington Post front-page headline of the day: “With Longevity on Court, Stevens’s Center-Left Influence Has Grown.” Suffice it to say that reporter (and former New Republic editor) Charles Lane did not find the Supreme Court divided between “center-left” and “center-right.” Right at the jump, after he mentions Stevens’s staying power has been good for “liberals” (thanks for that), he runs a “four-member center-left bloc.” This, at a time of “conservative ascendancy.” Late in the piece, Lane described that bloc accurately as the “liberal justices.” And he notes that Air America radio has a “Hang On, Stevens” parody based on “Hang On, Sloopy.”

I doubt Air America supports him because he’s “center-left.”