While I firmly believe that this is an extremely important book [it shows how the Supreme Court has maintained a strict caste system of Black peoples in America, by seriously undermining the 13th - 15th amendments, and really shows how we got to where we are today with how the court is ruling on immigration and against Black leaders], and I [who knew/knows little about the Supreme Court and its {often problematic - Clarence Thomas anyone?} justices outside of RBG] learned quite a bit [and I recommend this book highly to serious history lovers and people who have some knowledge of the Supreme Court], I must say this; this book is EXTREMELY dense, extremely detailed [there are sections that are taken from court rulings that are played out verbatim], with a ton of minutiae that often gets lost in the dialogue [and often made me just lose track of just what was being said], three-hour chapters [when one is listening to the audiobook - thankfully, it is amazingly narrated by Kevin R. Free and I highly recommend him; narrating this audiobook could not have been easy] that are just a nightmare for someone with OCD [I am unable to just stop in the middle of a chapter, and even if I could have, I would not recommend that here as it is easy enough to lose the plot when you are reading the WHOLE chapter, I cannot imagine how difficult it would be to pick up the thread of thought after having stopped in the middle of it] and well as being seriously overwhelming in the amount of information you are being fed, and the book overall was a bit above my pay-grade [due to my woeful lack of knowledge about the Supreme Court], and I need to be honest here, by the end, I breathed a huge breath and realized I was very grateful it was finally finished.

I was invited to read/review this by the publisher [Doubleday Books/Doubleday] and I thank them, the author, and NetGalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Their Accomplices Wore Robes is a deeply researched and detailed account of how the supreme court has maintained the racial caste system in america by undermining the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. I highly recommend this to everyone trying to be more knowledgeable about this country.