Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books

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6. Lots of questions here. Piss poorly written story. Sounds like it was written for Fox "news".

According to Amazon's author page for her, she has only five books. Four of them are children's books.

Then there's this: "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." Has she earned the $3.7 million only from these public institutions or in the sales of them generally since 2009? And were the "prodded" sales in normal book-selling doing business or "under the table" so to speak, prodding?

"In her case, the documents reveal repeated examples of taxpayer-funded court staff performing tasks for the justice’s book ventures, which workers in other branches of government are barred from doing." Again, no detail. Just generalizations.

This is a hack piece, not journalism. No facts, just allegations. In other words, total bullshit. Shame on you, AP. (As an aside, I worked at a major newspaper for three decades.)