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Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books
AP News ^ | July 11, 2023 | Brian Slodysko and Eric Tucker

Posted on 07/11/2023 6:30:30 PM PDT by fwdude

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: corruption; scotus; sotomayor
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To: fwdude

Oh my!! Sounds like an ethics violation to me!!


21 posted on 07/11/2023 7:18:38 PM PDT by LizzieD
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To: fwdude

Rich liberal publishers give lavish “advancements” to DemocRat politicians for books that the politicians didn’t write and few people actually read. There is no way that Obama’s and Hillary’s publishers made back the tens of millions they gave them. It’s a poorly disguised payoff and the publisher gets a tax write off.


22 posted on 07/11/2023 7:57:12 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: fwdude

Unnecessary for her. 99% of librarians are all out woke and around 75% are gay. They gladly promote woke books and destroy (literally) any opposing viewpoints.

Personal example: At the 2nd major university at which I worked for years, I walked by a shelf of donated books to be catalogued for the collection. One was
And Thats the Way it Isn’t
by rent L. Bozell (1990)
About media bias against conservatives up to that year with examples and analysis.
I thought, well none of the biased Dems here selected it for purchase but at least now the other side will be available for students soon.

Someone deselected it and records implied it was disposed of rather than given for book sale to the public library nearby. There was a trash compactor in back for literal wet garbage and that’s where the books and magazine went that did not get to the shelves, or were deemed outdated and not checked out enough. A dirty little secret of ALL libraries. Donated books get literally treated as garbage if it would be too much work to devote staff time to cataloging and shelving and keeping track of them on the computer system.


23 posted on 07/11/2023 8:38:21 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: fwdude

Think of all the wobbley library tables that can be stabilized finally by the wide latina.


24 posted on 07/11/2023 10:43:28 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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In the supply and demand capitalism the country is supposed to work within, the product (book) should induce it’s own demand. If not, try harder next time.


25 posted on 07/12/2023 4:07:49 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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99% of librarians are all out woke and around 75% are gay

I found this out when I offended the librarians at Texas A&M. Most were left leaning liberal Democrats and angry gays. I was surprised that large libraries have employees that just manage comic book sections.

26 posted on 07/12/2023 5:40:22 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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