Justice Sonia Sotomayor Didn’t Recuse Herself From Cases Involving Publisher That Paid Her $3M: Report
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. (Read more from “Justice Sonia Sotomayor Didn’t Recuse Herself From Cases Involving Publisher That Paid Her $3M: Report” HERE)
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