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Justice Sotomayor caught muscling universities into buying thousands of her books for a pretty penny
American Thinker ^ | 07/11/2023 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 07/11/2023 8:46:57 AM PDT by 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. 


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: book; scotus; sotomayor; university
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In other words, she and her personal henchwoman, Anh Le, who lives off the public dime, spend an enormous amount of time on shaking down colleges and other venues for book purchases. The AP laid out the raw emails where nothing was couched in delicate terms, leaving it pretty clear that Sotomayor has a pay to play operation going, muscling universities into having her speak and meet and greet their denizens -- in exchange for absurdly high numbers of book purchases they aren't shy about demanding. It has made her a pretty penny.
1 posted on 07/11/2023 8:46:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

$20 is $20.........


2 posted on 07/11/2023 8:48:11 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yet it is Justice Thomas’ “ethics” that raise the ire of Liberals everywhere...


3 posted on 07/11/2023 8:50:20 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: SeekAndFind

In an unrelated story: “Sotomayor votes with GOP judges on Affirmative action”

DON’T *EVER* vote the wrong way, is the message here...

They would love for BiDuuuhhhN to appoint one


4 posted on 07/11/2023 8:51:51 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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Yet it is Justice Thomas’ “ethics” that raise the ire of Liberals everywhere...

Democrats don't care about the ethics. They are trying to manufacture a vacancy in the Supreme Court that Biden can fill to tilt the balance to the left.

-PJ

5 posted on 07/11/2023 8:53:55 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: SeekAndFind

Old way to solicit a bribe: Send me money!
New way to solicit a bribe: Buy my book!

And that’s why Joe Biden is in such trouble. He’s stuck in the old way.
However, Hunter Biden gets it: Buy my paintings!


6 posted on 07/11/2023 8:54:24 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is it a cook book?


7 posted on 07/11/2023 8:54:57 AM PDT by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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"The Wise Guy" Latina.

Be a shame if there was a ruling against your university if you didn't buy my book.

Fits right in to The Biden Family Syndicate.

8 posted on 07/11/2023 8:56:14 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SeekAndFind

Delicious! Surprising that the Associated Press did the heavy lifting for this gem.


9 posted on 07/11/2023 8:56:54 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Don't be obtuse)
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To: SeekAndFind

But her $#*+ doesn’t stink because she’s a Democrat!


10 posted on 07/11/2023 8:59:52 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Yes, indeed. The hypocrisy of the lefties never fails to astonish me.


11 posted on 07/11/2023 9:00:51 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: NautiNurse

Is this the acorn the pig was Forced to Find ?


12 posted on 07/11/2023 9:01:29 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: no-to-illegals

Looks like AP tripped over Sotomayor’s mountain of university book deals while digging for dirt on Justices Thomas and Alito. :::Snicker:::


13 posted on 07/11/2023 9:09:43 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Don't be obtuse)
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To: NautiNurse

Was the information on the wise latino known years ago ?


14 posted on 07/11/2023 9:11:52 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How many of these colleges and universities, who brought her books and paid her to speak, filed an amicus brief in support of institutionalized racism a/k/a affirmative action? Perhaps she should have recused herself due to the conflict of interest.


15 posted on 07/11/2023 9:13:26 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: no-to-illegals
All of the AP stories are recent.

Inside the AP’s investigation into the ethics practices of the Supreme Court justices

16 posted on 07/11/2023 9:16:08 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Don't be obtuse)
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Would seem ap knew the information for years earlier and sat on.


17 posted on 07/11/2023 9:17:54 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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Does she paint pictures in her spare time, Like Hunter? Maybe she could ‘muscle’ museums into buying her ‘art’ too.


18 posted on 07/11/2023 9:59:35 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: SeekAndFind

BUT BUT BUT Scalia went fishing with someone.


19 posted on 07/11/2023 10:00:30 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: no-to-illegals

Point it out but don’t expect a result.


20 posted on 07/11/2023 10:00:43 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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