Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
The Left’s war on the Supreme Court heated up in recent weeks with lefty nonprofits and media outlets running hit pieces falsely claiming that conservative justices had somehow done something corrupt by accepting gifts from friends who did not actually have business before the court. This smear campaign led the media to harass Justice Clarence Thomas’ mother and now to go after his grandson. That’s four generations of harassment.
The Democrat media and its activist class have been howling that the Supreme Court is corrupt and illegitimate. Dem politicians have called for ethical standards and congressional reviews of the court.
Meanwhile, as Luke Rosiak notes, Justice Sotomayor was taking millions and voting on cases involving an ex-Nazi publisher.
Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to recuse herself from multiple copyright infringement cases involving book publisher Penguin Random House despite having been paid millions by the firm for her books, making it by far her largest source of income, records show.
In 2010, she got a $1.2 million book advance from Knopf Doubleday Group, a part of the conglomerate. In 2012, she reported receiving two advance payments from the publisher totaling $1.9 million.
In 2013, Sotomayor voted in a decision for whether the court should hear a case against the publisher called Aaron Greenspan v. Random House, despite then-fellow Justice Stephen Breyer recusing after also receiving money from the publisher…
In October 2019, children’s author Jennie Nicassio petitioned the Supreme Court to hear her lawsuit against Penguin Random House alleging that the book publisher had copied her book by selling one that was nearly identical. On the same day that the petition was distributed to the justices, Sotomayor received a $10,586 check from the publisher.
On February 24, 2020, the Supreme Court voted not to hear the case, denying the “writ of certiorari” and meaning that the case would remain where it left off — with a circuit court having found in the publisher’s favor. Sotomayor’s next check, coming in May of that year, was her largest ever from the parent company, at $82,807…
Penguin Random House is not just any company, it’s owned by Bertelsmann, a German mega-publisher with a Nazi past that is the main source of wokeness in the publishing industry, putting out Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngeloa’s White Fragility and threatening parents who wanted hate and porn out of their schools.
Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist”, Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” all have one publisher in common.
Bertelsmann, the German giant, which formerly used to put out “The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth”, has become the leading publisher and distributor of some of the most famous and influential racist woke books.
That includes promoting Ta-Nehisi Coates’s claim in “Between the World and Me” that the 9/11 firefighters and police officers were “menaces of nature” and “not human to me” to 9th graders and Robin DiAngelo’s racist “White Fragility” whose message, as CNN summed up, is that “if you’re a white person… you’re a racist.”
Not satisfied with pushing racism, Bertelsmann has also been involved in the controversy over sexualizing children.
“Beyond Magenta”, which describes 8-year-olds having sex and contains the sentence, “from six and up, I used to kiss other guys in my neighborhood, make out with them, and perform oral sex on them”, has been protested by parents.
And there’s more.
Some of the copyright cases posed a limited threat to the Bertelsmann empire, but its recent litigation over an attempt to take over American publishing by swallowing up Simon and Schuster could have potentially gone to the Supreme Court. And the Court would have a woke puppet on the bench.
Sotomayor inappropriately voted on cases involving her biggest source of cash while the media keeps trying to go after conservative justices.
i Jeff Bargholz says
Uh, $82,807 dollars is not more than $1.2 and $1.9 million.
Ralf Heinritz says
The Nazis had their own publishing house, Franz Eher.. Bertelsmann, founded in 1838, started as a woke- christian item (Erweckungsbewegung)
Spurwing Plover says
Soda Moron still continues to sets a example of how t o be a total fool just like the rest of them all
Guy Jones says
The fairly characterized “dim-witted Latina” is now even more aptly characterized as the “dim-witted and corrupt” Latina.
It’s the most basic canon of attorney and judicial ethics that attorneys and judges are supposed to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. A judge refusing to recuse herself from a case in which she has been richly compensated by one of the litigants before her, represents a brazen violation of judicial ethics, to say nothing of basic common sense.
Taylor says
We’ve become a banana republic. As for Bertelsmann, which Daniel’s written about before, you’d practically have to stop reading books altogether in order to boycott such a massive conglomerate.
CowboyUp says
Not really, for older works at least, you just have to buy and protect prior printings. More work, but still possible today. 20 or 30 years up the road, will probably be different. Like the old muscle cars, the left/dems will destroy all they can get their hands on. Buy libraries of the classics at garage and estate sales, or online, and bury them for the future. We are in the times of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.
Mark Granam says
About Sotomayor, “ One should not casually suggest that a graduate of law school who has ascended through the ranks to the highest court in the land is stupid.
But that is the inescapable conclusion.”
dani says
the dems REALLY want her off the SCOTUS soon. She isn’t well, and the fear is she’ll have to resign during the next presidential term – REPUBLICAN – and replaced by someone with fidelity to the Constitution, i.e. not a leftwing useful idiot
CowboyUp says
A wise latina (oops she already dated herself, because woman is now a merely a social construct), has no conflict of interest. She’s pure and righteous, unlike you gringos. No racism there. Every time she and so many other juditial appointments are mentioned, the ‘Republicans’ that confirmed them should be listed, or at least linked to. They are the enemy who should be dealt with first.