7.9.25 – Gatestone Institute
“A Radical Company Is Paying Supreme Court Justices Millions”
By Daniel Greenfield
[COMMENTS FROM DONNA GARNER: We should wonder no longer as to why hordes of people in the United States have become pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian, pro-Fascist, and anti-Israel.
For years our students’ minds have been thoroughly indoctrinated into the extreme, leftist dogma; and we are now seeing many of those students turn into violent extremists where they are targeting all law-enforcement officials.
How could so many of our American students have gone terribly astray?
As you read the following article, you will see that one enormous, German, ex-Nazi publishing giant (Bertelsmann) has been waging war on American children and their parents by promoting leftwing indoctrination for at least 12 years since Obama’s Common Core spread across the country.
Bertelsmann “owns the publishing market” and is now trying to dominate the U. S. Supreme Court.
Please see at the bottom of this article a list of the assets owned by German conglomerate Bertelsmann.]
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Excerpts from this article:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21733/bertelsmann-paying-supreme-court-justices
Last year, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, despite being in her early 50s and having an undistinguished career before her affirmative action appointment, published a memoir.
You might be forgiven for having missed it when "Lovely One" came out.
As the media politely notes, it was "briefly" on the New York Times bestseller list and is now going for half price on Amazon.
That is mostly to be expected of the ghostwritten memoir of an obscure judge.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AND THEIR HUGE MONETARY ADVANCES
Except that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year.
These would be record numbers for a Supreme Court Justice's biography from a book that hardly anyone had noticed when it came out.
And while books can become unexpected successes once released, there was little sign of that happening.
…Certainly no one (in the same legacy media that pursued every living member of the Justice Clarence Thomas family to find if anyone had ever done them a favor) actually bothered obtaining the sales figure.
…After Justice Jackson's memoir, Penguin Random House will be publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett's book for which she received a $2 million advance.
That's money the publisher seems even less likely to recoup considering that Justice Barrett is hated among leftists and has a mixed approval rating among conservatives.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HAD TO RECUSE THEMSELVES FROM VERY IMPORTANT CASE
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 'Penguin' recusals successfully allowed Coates to triumph in that latest court case.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had been previously criticized for not recusing herself in cases involving Penguin which had paid her over $3 million.
…the current Supreme Court is so badly conflicted over its Penguin cash that it can no longer decide cases involving it.
THE REAL PROBLEM – FAR LEFTIST COMPANY TAKING OVER PUBLISHING INDUSTRY
And that's a problem because Penguin is actually Bertelsmann.
Bertelsmann is a German, ex-Nazi publishing giant that has waged war on American parents, promoted racism and is trying to monopolistically gobble up all of American publishing.
RACIST MONOPOLY TAKING OVER WHAT OUR CHILDREN READ
All of the following books came out of Bertelsmann (a.k.a., Penguin Random House):
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."
While the ex-Nazi foreign corporation operates under familiar names like Penguin, Random House, Doubleday, Ballantine, Knopf, Viking, Putnam, Bantam, Del Rey, Golden Books and many others, it's actually a foreign company pushing deeply destructive products.
Even as parents tried to stop their children from being exposed to sexually inappropriate content, former CEO Markus Dohle [of Bertelsmann] went to war against them with a $500,000 legal fund.
THE ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER THE U. S. SUPREME COURT
Any corporation moving millions of dollars to Supreme Court justices in a way that has already successfully advantaged it in the Ta-Nehisi Coates plagiarism case [mentioned earlier in this article] would be suspect.
[Any] foreign company [would be suspect] that has tried to completely monopolize American publishing by seizing control of Simon and Schuster and has intervened in American politics is even more deeply troubling.
Yet the Bertelsmann millions have gone mostly unexamined even as ProPublica, a leftist advocacy group, launched a smear campaign against Justice Clarence Thomas.
SMEAR CAMPAIGN OF JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS BY LEGACY MEDIA
The Justice Thomas smears were repeated by every media outlet in the country and the [legacy media] even 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 [the same legacy media simply ignored it] when the Supreme Court could not even form a quorum [in a case before it] because of the millions [of dollars] paid by a multinational giant to Supreme Court Justices [for their books.]
No one in the media seems to have even bothered examining the sales figures for 'Lovely One' [written by Justice Sotomayor] to determine how many copies were sold and which venues actually sold them.
Justice Sotomayor has become notorious for high-pressure sales tactics aimed at compelling venues to buy her books.
Supreme Court justices used to write on mainly legal matters (with notable exceptions such as Taft and Douglas) and reserved their memoirs for toward the end of their lives.
…If Justice Sotomayor were not a Supreme Court Justice, would Penguin really be publishing her feeble efforts at writing children's books such as: “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.”
Justice Jackson is making millions for her ghostwritten memoir even though she has spent little time on the bench…
Judges putting their names on things to make money is not illegal…
but Bertelsmann has not only monopolized the American publishing market, but it has monopolized the market for Supreme Court justices.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST MIGHT FURTHER AFFECT SUPREME COURT JUSTICES’ RULING
…considering Bertelsmann’s radical politics and vast ambitions, that is a major problem.
What happens when Bertelsmann triggers a court case with major legal implications and once again a quorum of Supreme Court Justices cannot be found to sit on it?
Then the “woke” mega-publisher will have officially bought America's legal system.
*Purportedly, the U. S. Supreme Court Justices earn a salary of $303,600 for their service on the court; Chief Justice John Roberts earns $317,500.
MORE INFORMATION
A list of the assets owned by German conglomerate Bertelsmann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Bertelsmann
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