TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Jul 11, 2023

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s staff has often prodded public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children’s books, the Associated Press reported today. Details of those events were obtained by AP through open records requests to public institutions as part of an ongoing investigation into the ethics practices of the court. The documents show examples of taxpayer-funded court staff performing tasks for the justice’s book ventures, which workers in other branches of the federal government are barred from doing. The AP also found that colleges and universities that host justices for speaking events used those visits as fundraising opportunities and that justices repeatedly accepted all-expense-paid teaching trips to locales such as Hawaii, Iceland and Italy that were “light on classroom instruction."