It's not just the right wing SCOTUS either. The entire court is corrupt.
@JerseyGenX Sounds like Sotamayor just said no to this behavior.
@sfleetucker She did not. Her staff push her books at every speaking engagement she has.
@sfleetucker Except if her book is for sale on say amazon and a case comes before her does she recuse herself? If she does will amazon stop selling her book? If she doesn't but then rules against them will she worry they will pull her book? They have no code of ethics. They are appointed for life. Impeaching and removing them from their position is practically impossible.
@JerseyGenX It probably depends a lot on the case, and whether she had a breakdown of where her sales were coming from and how. I'm in general agreement with you that we need a code of ethics. I don't know if that code has to preclude *any* other source of income.
@JerseyGenX Yeah, but that's not likely to influence her decisions. I'm not concerned about a mass market book, especially one she can't see who's buying. (Now a rich person with business before the court was buying 10K copies at an event where she spoke to that person, that's a whole different ball of wax.)
There has to be a lower bound to what we should worry about. I'm not sure what the number is but I'm pretty sure buying a $30 book is under that number.