Justice Sotomayor caught muscling universities into buying thousands of her books for a pretty penny

American Thinker ^ | 07/11/2023 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

With a media campaign going on against conservative Supreme Court justices in the wake of Roe v. Wade, the Associated Press decided to do a little digging on the others -- and came up with a doozy on Justice Sonia Sotomayor, starting with a softball lede:

WASHINGTON (AP) — For colleges and libraries seeking a boldfaced name for a guest lecturer, few come bigger than Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice who rose from poverty in the Bronx to the nation’s highest court.

She has benefited, too — from schools’ purchases of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of the books she has written over the years.

Sotomayor’s staff has often prodded public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children’s books, works that have earned her at least $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009. Details of those events, largely out of public view, were obtained by The Associated Press through more than 100 open records requests to public institutions. The resulting tens of thousands of pages of documents offer a rare look at Sotomayor and her fellow justices beyond their official duties.

In her case, the documents reveal repeated examples of taxpayer-funded court staff performing tasks for the justice’s book ventures, which workers in other branches of government are barred from doing. 

[minnesota_bound]

Gov Gavin Newsom does the same thing using his wife’s books.
He himself will tell anyone that to do business with California gov’t you pay him thru various groups.

[Jacquerie]

Not new at all.

From 1989 when Rush hammered Jim Wright every day:

WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury is investigating former House Speaker Jim Wright’s book deal and has subpoenaed documents from at least three groups that directly or indirectly bought bulk copies of “Reflections of a Public Man,” for which Wright earned royalties of 55%.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-09-mn-136-story.html

[ronnie raygun]

more propaganda for the masses

[MayflowerMadam]

Just another liberal POC shakedown artist. It’s what they do.