What's in a constitutional interpretation? As Thomas Jefferson once wrote to James Madison, "the principle is that the earth belongs to the living, and not the dead." Over the centuries, many Supreme Court Justices have either upheld or lost track of this, on one hand interpreting the Constitution towards a more perfect union, on the other passively, calling the "balls and strikes" in accordance with the extant Constitution.
On Monday, Elena Kagan's Senate confirmation hearings began. What will she bring? Humor? Too much judicial Twilight talk? MotherJones correspondent David Corn has followed her hearings in Washington DC this past week and reports his observations to us via Skype.
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