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 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.
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.
Sotomayor inappropriately voted on cases involving her biggest source of cash while the media keeps trying to go after conservative justices.
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