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Judicial sensibilities

A review of Shaping America: The Supreme Court and American Society by Edward F. Mannino. A review of Louis D. Brandeis: A Life by Melvin I. Urofsky. Richard Posner reviews Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court by Jeff Shesol (and more and more and more). 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. Justice Obama: Should the president's next Supreme Court pick be himself? (and more) POTUS v. SCOTUS: In John Roberts, Obama finds the perfect enemy. Judicial sensibilities: When the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the president get into a tiff, could the nation’s highest court fall to pieces? Promises, promises, promises: Stern words for John Roberts’s Supreme Court. Roberts versus Roberts: Just how radical is the chief justice? Jeffrey Rosen investigates. Impeach John Roberts: The Chief Justice lied (and more). From Writ, Michael Dorf on Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, and the Noble Lie; and Justice Scalia suggests that the legal academy is out of touch — is he right? Here's a humanist view of Justice Scalia. From The New Yorker, what will the Supreme Court be like without liberal leader John Paul Stevens? (and more) The unfathomable Supreme Court penchant for talking politics. SCOTUS has freed companies to spend aggressively on election ads, but the public won't know where the money's going. Why the Citizens United v. FEC ruling is bad for politics and the market (and more). An article on Citizens United and the battle for free speech in America. Lawrence Lessig on the new constitutional amendment America needs. The recent ruling left some observers to cry the sky is falling — a look at some past decisions that really did merit Chicken Little’s exclamation.