From LPBR, a review of Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law by Philip K. Howard; and a review of Law's Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics by Gordon Silverstein. A review of The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution by Barry Friedman. The first chapter from Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law by Mark Tushnet. P.J. O'Rourke on twittering the Constitution: All the Founding Fathers go tweet, tweet, tweet. Let Citizens United speak: Why the Supreme Court should abolish political speech limits on corporations and unions. Here is the Supreme Court's secret go-to chart for easy answers. Benched: Barry Friedman on why the Supreme Court is irrelevant. More on Packing the Court by James MacGregor Burns. A review of Melvin I. Urofsky’s Louis D. Brandeis: A Life (and more). Do women make better judges? Asked and answered, with data. From NYRB, Ronald Dworkin on Justice Sotomayor: The unjust hearings. Are Obama’s judges really liberals? Jeffrey Toobin investigates. Spoonfuls of sugar: Dahlia Lithwick on Americans' continued love affair with the John Roberts Court. A review of Justice Kennedy's Jurisprudence: The Full and Necessary Meaning of Liberty by Frank J. Colucci. A review of Death Justice: Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas and the Contradictions of the Death Penalty by Kenneth W. Miller and David Niven. Ardor in the court: A Texas court affirms the right of a judge and a prosecutor who slept together to condemn a man to death.