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When you see famous people touring with a memoir or children’s book (when they’re famous for something other than writing children’s books) it’s because they’re trying to move copies. The places that host them are expected to buy a whole bunch of those books so the publisher can recoup the advance and make money.
Nothing too extraordinary about that, but it’s tacky when done by a Supreme Court justice.
Justice Sotomayor collected more than $1.9 million in advances and promotion for her memoir, My Beloved World, published by Knopf Doubleday.
And the money just kept coming in.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor didn’t recuse herself from multiple cases involving a book publisher – Penguin Random House – which paid her more than $3 million since 2010, according to a report.
After My Beloved World, Sotomayor began writing children’s books. Would people normally buy them in a bookstore? Maybe not.
So Sotomayor went on book tours.
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.
Normal enough, but vulgar behavior for a justice. And doing it with a library is especially fetid.
In 2019, as Sotomayor traveled the country to promote her new children’s book, “Just Ask!,” library and community college officials in Portland, Oregon, jumped at the chance to host an event.
They put in long hours and accommodated the shifting requests of Sotomayor’s court staff. Then, as the public cost of hosting the event soared almost tenfold, a Sotomayor aide emailed with a different, urgent concern: She said the organizers did not buy enough copies of the justice’s book, which attendees had to purchase or have on hand in order to meet Sotomayor after her talk.
“For an event with 1,000 people and they have to have a copy of Just Ask to get into the line, 250 books is definitely not enough,” the aide, Anh Le, wrote staffers at the Multnomah County Library. “Families purchase multiples and people will be upset if they are unable to get in line because the book required is sold out.”
Uh-huh. It was all about the kids.
There’s nothing specifically corrupt here apart from Sotomayor’s failure to recuse herself from cases involving Bertelsmann, an ex-Nazi woke company using the name Penguin Random House in America. But there’s no clear evidence of any significant impact. So it’s slimy and leaves a bad taste, but not clearly corrupt.
Until Sotomayor decided to lie about it.
“Justice Sotomayor would have recused in cases in which Penguin Random House was a party, in light of her close and ongoing relationship with the publisher,” the Supreme Court said in a statement. “An inadvertent omission failed to bring Penguin’s participation in several cases to her attention; those cases ultimately were not selected for review by the Court. Chambers’ conflict check procedures have since been changed.”
A person close to Sotomayor, who insisted on anonymity to discuss the justice’s book dealings, said that Sotomayor “has not and will not profit from sales” of her memoir beyond the $3.1 million advance that she received and that doing so would “require purchases of hundreds of thousands of additional books — more than double the purchases to date.”
Sotomayor, however, continues to earn royalties — at least $400,000 since 2019 — from sales of her children’s literature, including “Just Ask!,” her second best-selling book, which was the promotional focus of the 2019 event held in Portland, emails and records show.
Major political figures get massive advances. No royalties are expected. Penguin clearly expected Sotomayor to promote the book and she more than kept up her end of the bargain.
Nothing illegal here, but the sheer vulgar greed on display really shows what she is.
As the talk neared, Le shifted her focus to books, which were offered for sale online to those who obtained tickets to the free event.
“Can you please show me the screen where people can purchase books?” Le wrote library staffers as they prepared to make the tickets available. “Are you just placing Just Ask … on the portal or all of the Justice’s books.”
When the free tickets were quickly snapped up, she asked library officials to publicize that those who could not get tickets could still meet the justice if they purchased a book.
A day later, she followed with another email, concerned that not enough of the people who got tickets had also purchased a book.
“Is there a reminder going out that people need to purchase a book at the event or bring a book to get into the signing line?” Le wrote. “Most of the registrants did not purchase books.”
Still, when she found out event organizers had only purchased 250 copies of Sotomayor’s book, she sent an email telling library officials that the quantity was “definitely not enough.”
This reminds me of the obnoxious emails Hillary’s people sent around when scheduling anything. There’s something about socialists not wanting to leave a dime on the table.
At least she’s not down at the bus station soliciting lonely sailors.
Metaphorically perhaps, but not literally. Fewer STDs this way.
Yuck. Sotomayor is even uglier than that Kagan guy.
LOL! Excellent.
When Latinas go bad …
I had a good one recently. She looked a bit Latina, anyway. She was an Energizer Bunny, that’s for sure.
I’m sure the 81 million bidumb voters who all agree with her, will cough up… cough cough…..
This wretched crone is fairly characterized as “the dim-witted and corrupt Latina.”
But Justice Thomas is corrupt. Got it. BTW, doesn’t this grift qualify Sotomayor to become a member of the Biden family?
A dishonorary member in bad standing.
Wise Latina, Indeed!
A fugly beast who should be put down for the good of humanity.
“Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Endless Greed”. Front Page Magazine
“Sonia Sotomayor’s Book Is for Sale, Not Her Vote”. National Review
Mmm, quite the quandary. Is Greenfield aware of Sotamoron’s immpeccable honesty and high intellect?
She is reliable, though. You can always rely on her to vote the Dirtbagocrat activist way. What a scumbag.
Wait a minute! As a federal employee I was not able to receive anything in excess of $25 in value from any party with any business before my agency. The presumption was that anything in excess of that amount could cloud my judgment or cause me to take action or influence actions in the party’s favor. But the “Wise Latina” Supreme Court Justice can accept millions in filthy lucre from her publisher and still sit on cases involving it? Unreal.
So just you wait and the M.S. Media will be swooning over this load of gunk from Soda Moron just like they did with Obama and Clinton(Bill)and the other Democrats
Sotomayor is just another example of”AFFIRMATIVE ACTION”(on Steroids)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I see the type of decisions made by the U.S. Supreme court, I have to ask how qualified are they to make important decisions affecting millions of people in this country? I can only conclude that the third branch of the Federal Government is in a state of decline as well.
Sotomayor is a poor judge who would make a good host on The View
If you have an autograph session for owners of the book, it is common sense to have enough copies of the book to meet the supply of book owners. 250 copies definitely seems insufficient, and would result in hundreds of angry feminists being deprived of the honor of meeting the “wise Latina” for lack of a book to purchase. The assistant seems to be doing mere due diligence for a event-handler too stupid to figure this out.