If Senators and Representatives can cash in, why not the justices too ?
Argh, fair is fair
Posted on 07/16/2023 8:56:34 AM PDT by george76
Obama-nominated SCOTUS justice has seen net worth spike during tenure on high court..
Sonia Sotomayor's net worth has increased significantly since joining the nation's highest court, according to financial disclosure forms amid new revelations about the Supreme Court justice's efforts to promote her books.
Sotomayor's net worth has skyrocketed, putting her among the ranks of the nation's millionaires. In 2021, her investments totaled somewhere between $1.5 million and $6.4 million,
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One reason for the sharp increase in Sotomayor's investments and overall wealth is the money she's made from writing books. .. her staff has often "prodded" public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children's books — works that have made her at least $3.7 million since joining the Supreme Court and continue to rake in six-figure royalty payments annually.
According to the AP, Sotomayor's publisher, Penguin Random House, has played a role in organizing her talks, even pressing public institutions to commit to buying a certain number of copies or requesting attendees purchase books to obtain tickets.
Sotomayor didn't recuse herself from multiple cases before the Supreme Court involving Random House, despite earning significant money from her book deal with the publisher.
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having her staff sell her books, including .. pressure on schools and libraries to buy a minimum number of her books
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she made a mistake by failing to recuse from several cases involving her book publisher.
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publishers responsible for book advances and contracts may have matters before the high court potentially requiring certain justices to recuse themselves.
Investments could pose a similar problem
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The media ignores Justice Sotomayor receiving gifts while attacking Justices Thomas and Alito
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If Senate Democrats actually cared about ethics, they'd start by cleaning up the crack den called the Biden White House."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Maybe now the wise Latina can by a salad fork and drop some weight. As a wise Latina she should know being a fat diabetic is very unhealthy.
I was, sadly, having the same thought. Does that make us bad? Lol.
But muh Clarence Thomas!!!
I’m cool with it. :)
The books these politicians write are a cover.
They say she made almost 4 million off of the book.
Do you know anyone who read it? It’s money laundering, just like Hunter’s paintings.
And then treat it with Ozempic.
Or Clenbuterol…
The payoff....this is why you hardly ever, rarely, see a dim appointed judge veer off message.
Argh, fair is fair
Does Congress have authority to question SCOTUS critters? I think she’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.
No doubt the bribes are flowing in just like every other libtard
Book deals are the perfect money laundering schemes. Everyone wins and it’s perfectly legal until congress says it’s not, which will never happen.
I’m surprised she doesn’t have a fake Foundation
One reason for the sharp increase in Sotomayor’s investments and overall wealth is the money she’s made from writing books.
But, but, but Thomas has rich friends…
Her ethics are all bad. But they knew she was a crook when they put her on the Supreme Court. So what are they crying about? A crook doing what a crook does.
This is my shocked face.
“provided the right people are rich, the right people are poor. “
You mean like the Soviet Politburo apparatchiks having their summer dachas on the Black Sea?
Might there be some characteristics of communism at work here?
It’s the coalion of Marxists and Muslims. The Muslims want the infidel. Marxists want the capitalists.
Carlos the Jackal penned this old thought recognizing that neither of the two could bring down the west but an alliance of the two could.
With this, the death to America agenda moved right into the White House.
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