Even More Supreme Grifting

It goes beyond the conservative grifters.

For colleges and libraries seeking a boldfaced name for a guest lecturer, few come bigger than Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice who rose from poverty in the Bronx to the nation’s highest court.

She has benefited, too — from schools’ purchases of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of the books she has written over the years.

Sotomayor’s staff has often prodded public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir or children’s books, works that have earned her at least $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009.

These gigs are often arranged by the Spreme Court staff for all of the justices. So they are using taxpayer money and government employees to facilitate their side hustles. That, of course, is forbidden for congresscritters and presidents (not that the TOFF would pay attention to that rule. But for the Supremes, especially Sotomayor, they seem to take it as their due that government-paid employees work to make it easier for the justices to work their grifts.

Meanwhile, Ol' Johnny Roberts is off, wringing his hands, because more and more Americans are regarding the justices as just another pack of corrupt politicos.