A Radical Company is Paying Supreme Court Justices Millions:
Last year, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, despite being in her early 50s and having an undistinguished career before her affirmative action appointment, published a memoir.
You might be forgiven for having missed it when "Lovely One" came out. As the media politely notes, it was "briefly" on the New York Times bestseller list and is now going for half price on Amazon. That is mostly to be expected of the ghostwritten memoir of an obscure judge.
Except that Jackson received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year. These would be record numbers for a Supreme Court Justice's biography from a book that hardly anyone had noticed when it came out. And while books can become unexpected successes once released, there was little sign of that happening.
The actual sales figures have not been made public and perhaps 'Lovely One' sold millions of copies even while hardly anyone noticed before ending up in the remainder bin a year later. Certainly no one in the same media that pursued every living member of the Thomas family to find if anyone had ever done them a favor actually bothered obtaining the sales figure.
Even when the money was coming from an avaricious foreign publisher which has deluged Supreme Court justices with millions of dollars in generous publishing deals.
After Jackson's memoir, Penguin Random House will be publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett's book for which she received a $2 million advance. That's money the publisher seems even less likely to recoup considering that Barrett is hated among leftists and has a mixed approval rating among conservatives. Past polls show that the majority of the country can't even name a single Supreme Court justice, yet they are receiving celebrity level advances for books no one cares about.
Penguin's payouts previously made headlines when five Supreme Court justices, including Jackson and Barrett, had to recuse themselves from a case involving allegations of plagiarism by racist Hamas supporter Ta-Nehisi Coates whose works, including a book describing 9/11 firefighters as "not human to me", were widely backed and promoted by Penguin.
The 'Penguin' recusals successfully allowed Coates to triumph in that latest court case.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had been previously criticized for not recusing herself in cases involving Penguin which had paid her over $3 million. And the current Supreme Court is so badly conflicted over its Penguin cash that it can no longer decide cases involving it.
And that's a problem because Penguin is actually Bertelsmann: a German ex-Nazi publishing giant that has waged war on American parents, promoted racism and is trying to monopolistically gobble up all of American publishing. Ibram X. Kendi's "How to Be an Antiracist", Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility", Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Between the World and Me", and, during WWII, "The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth" all came out of Bertelsmann. --->READ MORE HERE
Did You Catch Sotomayor’s Latest Supreme Court Meltdown?
Sonia Sotomayor has built her reputation on the Supreme Court not through legal brilliance or persuasive reasoning, but through a relentless display of grievance and victimhood that borders on performance.
Last year, she admitted that recent rulings brought her to tears. “There are days that I’ve come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried,” she said. “There have been those days. And there are likely to be more.”
She continued, “There are moments when I’m deeply, deeply sad. There are moments when, yes, even I feel desperation. But you have to own it, you have to accept it, you have to shed the tears and then you have to wipe them and get up.”
Well, she’s still complaining.
In a dissent of a Supreme Court ruling, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said: "Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial."
Justice Sotomayor made this statement in her dissent from the ruling allowing for migrants to be deported to countries they are not from.
In her dissent, which she wrote with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, she said that this would result in the government "deporting noncitizens to potentially dangerous countries without notice or the opportunity to assert a fear of torture."
Let’s be clear: Sotomayor’s recent complaints about the Trump administration supposedly having the Supreme Court “on speed dial” are nothing more than sour grapes from a justice who can’t stand being in the minority. She’s not offering a principled critique of legal procedure—she’s whining because the Court didn’t rubber-stamp her preferred political outcome. --->READ MORE HERE
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