Lecturer Thomas Goldstein participated in NPR's live blogging of the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings:

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan faces the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Throughout her confirmation hearings this week, we'll be offering up-to-the-minute analysis with help from the Supreme Court experts at SCOTUSblog.

In the box below, there will be analysis from Tom Goldstein, SCOTUSblog's publisher — and a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, and SCOTUSblog staffers Anna Christensen, manager of Howe & Russell, and Adam Schlossman, Goldstein's assistant at Akin Gump.