Shocker: We now have an actual ethics violation involving a SC judge

[GhostOfMatchesMalone]

And shockingly...it's a lefty.

"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.

The copyright infringement cases, in which Penguin Random House stood to suffer financial damage if the court ruled unfavorably, were not taken up by the high court but justices voted on whether or not to hear the cases.

Altogether, Sotomayor earned $3.6 million from Penguin Random House and its subsidiaries for agreeing to let them publish her 2013 memoir, “My Beloved World,” and numerous children’s books since then, the Daily Wire reported on Thursday.

The same year that her memoir came out, Sotomayor voted on whether the high court should take up Aaron Greenspan v. Random House.

Her liberal colleague at the time, Justice Stephen Breyer, recused himself from the case, having also received money from Penguin Random House."


$3.6M from a book deal is insanely overpriced, even for a SC judge. The book will never earn that back and the publisher knows it.

 

[jb1215]

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And shockingly...it's a lefty.

"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.

The copyright infringement cases, in which Penguin Random House stood to suffer financial damage if the court ruled unfavorably, were not taken up by the high court but justices voted on whether or not to hear the cases.

Altogether, Sotomayor earned $3.6 million from Penguin Random House and its subsidiaries for agreeing to let them publish her 2013 memoir, “My Beloved World,” and numerous children’s books since then, the Daily Wire reported on Thursday.

The same year that her memoir came out, Sotomayor voted on whether the high court should take up Aaron Greenspan v. Random House.

Her liberal colleague at the time, Justice Stephen Breyer, recused himself from the case, having also received money from Penguin Random House."


$3.6M from a book deal is insanely overpriced, even for a SC judge. The book will never earn that back and the publisher knows it.

She is just like her idol Shillary.

 

[Capt Ron 1]

There is something that 100% of the time is true. THEY accuse US of what THEY always have done, and continue to do.

 

[GatorTheo]

Sounds serious but will there be any price to pay?

 

[ghost_of_ukalum1988]

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And shockingly...it's a lefty.

"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.

The copyright infringement cases, in which Penguin Random House stood to suffer financial damage if the court ruled unfavorably, were not taken up by the high court but justices voted on whether or not to hear the cases.

Altogether, Sotomayor earned $3.6 million from Penguin Random House and its subsidiaries for agreeing to let them publish her 2013 memoir, “My Beloved World,” and numerous children’s books since then, the Daily Wire reported on Thursday.

The same year that her memoir came out, Sotomayor voted on whether the high court should take up Aaron Greenspan v. Random House.

Her liberal colleague at the time, Justice Stephen Breyer, recused himself from the case, having also received money from Penguin Random House."


$3.6M from a book deal is insanely overpriced, even for a SC judge. The book will never earn that back and the publisher knows it.

What say you @kalimgoodman? Ethical Lapse or no?

 

[GhostOfMatchesMalone]

What say you @kalimgoodman? Ethical Lapse or no?

And here's the difference between us and @kalimgoodman: If you can find where Clarence Thomas took money from a publisher and then voted on hearing cases involving that same publisher, we will say it's just as wrong as it is when a lefty does it.

Because we put our morals above our politics.

 

[ghost_of_ukalum1988]

More on Sotomayor….

 

[kalimgoodman]

What say you @kalimgoodman? Ethical Lapse or no?

Read more about it and get back to me. Also, Gorsuch got the same book deal and didn't disclose or recuse himself. Ill let you tell the board why.

 

[GhostOfMatchesMalone]

Read more about it and get back to me. Also, Gorsuch got the same book deal and didn't disclose or recuse himself. Ill let you tell the board why.

Gorsuch got a $250,000 advance, which is less than a tenth of what Sotomayer got. And I don't see anything about him ruling on cases involving the publisher.

Gorsuch receives $250K book advance payment

The deal is with HarperCollins. He's writing about judicial and regulatory policy, but publication is not imminent.

www.politico.com

These are completely different. Nothing wrong with what Gorsuch did, everything wrong with what Sotomayer did. Not surprising that you are trying to spin them as being the same.

This is why we can't have real discussions on this board, because the libs are so dishonest.