Expert warns foreign corporation putting money in pockets of Supreme Court justices
An expert is warning about possible danger ahead for American jurisprudence because of the cash – millions of dollars – that a foreign interest in putting into the pockets of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The warning comes from Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, in a column reprinted at the Gatestone Institute.
The corporation is the German publishing giant Bertelsmann, who in America has brand names like Penguin, Random House, Doubleday, Ballantine, Knopf, Viking, Putnam, Bantam, Del Rey, Golden Books and more.
That, the column explains, an “ex-Nazi foreign corporation” that is “pushing deeply destructive products.”
“Even as parents tried to stop their children from being exposed to sexually inappropriate content, former CEO Markus Dohle went to war against them with a $500,000 legal fund,” the report noted.
Its impact on the Supreme Court has developed over recent years, as Justice Ketanji Jackson “received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year” in deals connected to the conglomerate.
And Penguin Random House will be publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s book for which she received a $2 million advance, it said.
And “Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had been previously criticized for not recusing herself in cases involving Penguin which had paid her over $3 million.”
“Bertelsmann millions have gone mostly unexamined even as ProPublica, a leftist advocacy group, launched a smear campaign against Justice [Clarence] Thomas. The Thomas smears were repeated by every media outlet in the country which pursued the 76-year-old justice’s 96-year-old mother to find out where exactly she lives and who paid the tuition for his grandnephew, yet shrug when the Supreme Court can’t even form a quorum over millions from a multinational giant that has business before the court being directed to justices.”
The warning noted that the millions are coming “from an avaricious foreign publisher which has deluged Supreme Court justices with millions of dollars in generous publishing deals.”
“Penguin’s payouts previously made headlines when five Supreme Court justices, including Jackson and Barrett, had to recuse themselves from a case involving allegations of plagiarism by racist Hamas supporter Ta-Nehisi Coates whose works, including a book describing 9/11 firefighters as ‘not human to me’, were widely backed and promoted by Penguin,” the report explained.
“The current Supreme Court is so badly conflicted over its Penguin cash that it can no longer decide cases involving it,” Greenfield explained.
That’s even as Bertelsmann “has waged war on American parents, promoted racism and is trying to monopolistically gobble up all of American publishing. Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘How to Be an Antiracist’, Robin DiAngelo’s ‘White Fragility’, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’, and, during WWII, ‘The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth’ all came out of Bertelsmann,” he explained.
His warning continued, “Supreme Court justices used to write on mainly legal matters (with notable exceptions such as Taft and Douglas) and reserved their memoirs toward the end of their lives. Newly minted justices like Jackson signing memoir deals is an obvious cash-in and Justice Sotomayor, after publishing a memoir no one was asking for ‘My Beloved World’, began writing children’s books.
“Would Penguin really be publishing Sotomayor’s feeble efforts at writing children’s books, ‘Just Help!: How to Build a Better World’, ‘Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You’ and (coming soon) ‘Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You’ if she weren’t a Supreme Court justice?”
While “judges putting their names on things to make money is not illegal,” Greenfield noted, “What happens when Bertelsmann triggers a court case with major legal implications and once again a quorum of justices can’t be found to sit on it?
“Then the woke mega-publisher will have officially bought America’s legal system.”