July 11, 2023
Sotomayor caught muscling universities into buying thousands of her books for a pretty penny
By Monica Showalter
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. 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.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/sotomayor_caught_muscling_universities_into_buying_thousands_of_her_books_for_a_pretty_penny.html
