By Stacey Abrams One approaches a legal thriller rooted in high-stakes Washington politics with a certain trepidation â and a curiosity deepened, in this case, by Stacey Abramsâs chosen setting: the U.S. Supreme Court. Questions proliferate. Will there be actual Republicans and Democrats? Will the politics feel authentic â as they did, for example, in Allen Druryâs Pulitzer Prize-winning epic from the 1950s, âAdvise and Consentâ? Will the justices â as in life â be divided by ideology as well as by their disparate and often quirky personas? Will the author truly try to represent the hermetic world of the court or, hardest of all, the secretive and often byzantine process through which it renders its decisions?