The Court's monumentally wrong ruling in Citizens United v. FEC has laid bare the underbelly of the conservative legal project. It's time for progressives to have that honest brawl about why the Constitution itself points in a progressive direction.

As every fifth-grader knows, our Founding Fathers rebelled against the British tea taxes primarily because the taxes were imposed upon the colonies without any representation in the British Parliament.

Kagan would be doing the entire nation as well as the Constitution itself a service if she would use the confirmation process to express and explain her commitment to follow the Constitution -- all of it.

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