On Fridays, we administer random reader polls here at Above the Law. Last week, for example, we asked you to vote for your Favorite Supreme Court Justice.

(That poll is now closed -- and Justice Scalia won, in case you're wondering. But we're still taking votes in our poll for LEAST Favorite Supreme Court Justice.)

Today's poll is a little less weighty. It relates to Judge Janice Rogers Brown, who currently sits on the super-prestigious D.C. Circuit (from whence many Supreme Court justices have come).

Judge Brown, a former justice of the California Supreme Court, is a smart, outspoken judicial conservative -- a judicial diva, if you will. She also happens to be an African-American woman. Not surprisingly, JRB is frequently mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee in a Republican administration.

Enough background. For your reference, the top right photo is "Bangs Janice," and the bottom right photo is "Perm Janice." Here's the poll:

We look forward to the results. Thanks for voting!

A Preemptive Rebuttal to the P.C. Police: We do NOT need your lectures on the long and complex history of African-American women and their hairstyles. We are NOT making any grand statement on issues of self-image and self-representation, the highly charged intersection of racism and feminism, or any other weighty subject.

This poll is nothing more than the federal judicial version of the "which look is better" polls that appear in celebrity mags like US Weekly and In Touch. We just want to find out which JRB hairstyle our readers prefer. (We have an opinion, but we'll keep it to ourselves for now.)

In future polls, we will ask ATL readers about the hair and fashion choices of lawyers and judges from every conceivable demographic group. So don't read anything into this poll. We're starting with Janice Rogers Brown because, well, we think she's magnificent. And we want her to have the full benefit of these poll results as she styles herself for future public appearances.