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.
@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.
@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.