The Senate has shut down ordinary business until 4:00 p.m. today while Senator Byrd’s casket lies in the U.S. Capitol. The Judiciary Committee will march through three panels of 24 witnesses on the Kagan nomination beginning at 4:00 p.m.

According to the latest panel assignments, I’ll be on the second panel, which will have eight witnesses. My guess is that my panel will start some time between 4:40 pm and 5:15 pm and may run an hour or more.

The final panel will include the ABA committee representatives, who I gather will explain how they violated their standards to give Kagan a “well qualified” rating. (See also Mia Reini’s and John Shu’s “ABA’s biased judicial ratings: Same old dog, same old tricks.”)