If popular constitutionalists are right about their sweeping court-skepticism, that would cast the entire European project of “integration through law” under the shadow of a hermeneutics of suspicion. But must popular constitutionalists reject judicial review wholesale? Is a rapprochement between legal and popular constitutionalism possible? Is there an argument to the effect that judicial review — even when exercised by courts “beyond” the democratic state — improves democratic legitimacy overall — and would such an argument be plausible in the European context? Drawing on the European experience, this paper therefore explores conditions of the possibility of such a rapprochement. It argues that judicial review, suitably understood, along the lines of a weak-remedies- or deliberative-experimentalist approach, can be part of an overall regime of deliberative democracy.