Lecturers Thomas Goldstein and Amy Howe participated in NPR's live blogging of the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings:

As senators question Elena Kagan today on her views on hot-button issues and her role as a judge, get up-to-the-minute analysis with help from the Supreme Court experts at SCOTUSblog.

The analysts posting comments in the box below are SCOTUSblog's publisher Tom Goldstein, a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and three other SCOTUSblog staffers: the blog's manager, Erin Miller; Anna Christensen, manager of Howe & Russell; and Amy Howe, a partner at Howe & Russell.

Goldstein also is a contributing analyst on NPR's nightly one-hour summaries of the day's hearings, which can be heard on NPR.org and many member stations.