( ) -q-23- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “of her books.” An AP investigation has found that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s staff has repeatedly prodded public institutions to buy her memoir or children’s literature. [CutID: <Cuts> SCOTUS-SOTOMAYOR-house-q-TUEam.mp3 Time: 23s Title: SCOTUS-SOTOMAYOR-house-q-TUEam Out-cue: of her books] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. —————————– VERBATIM: For colleges and […]
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Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books
( ) -q-23- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “of her books.”
An AP investigation has found that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s staff has repeatedly prodded public institutions to buy her memoir or children’s literature.
[CutID: <Cuts> SCOTUS-SOTOMAYOR-house-q-TUEam.mp3
Time: 23s
Title: SCOTUS-SOTOMAYOR-house-q-TUEam
Out-cue: of her books]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.
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VERBATIM: For colleges and libraries seeking a big 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. But emails show officials frequently found that an appearance by Sotomayor came with an additional benefit. Those included the purchase of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of copies of her books.