Hearing some of the Democratic senators in the Kagan confirmation hearings, you would think that our current Supreme Court stepped out of a Charles Dickens novel to oppress people. Don’t believe it.

In particular, two senators have gone out of their way to misrepresent the court’s ruling in the Ledbetter case, in which the court rejected an employee’s Title VII discrimination lawsuit because she waited six years after learning of the discrimination before filing suit. From Hans Bader, writing for the D.C. Supreme Court Examiner: