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Originally Posted by darryl
Thanks Steve. A very reasonable and informative response. I wasn't aware of the level of advances paid to the Judges as per your links, as I would not have thought advances of this level on these types of books would be economic. Thank you for curing my ignorance in this regard. Given this level of pecuniary interest it is quite legitimate to at least raise the issue of recusal, not because of any doubts about the integrity of the Judges in question, but simply because of the principle of perceived bias which comes into play in these circumstances. Justice not only must be done, but must be seen to be done.
Hopefully the Supreme Court will refuse to hear this matter, which seems to be the likely result. In which case, of course, the law would have worked in this instance, at least in both your opinion and my own.
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Actually many of the books written by authors who are Supreme Court Justices are of general interest. I've read several and they are quite interesting and not very technical. Both Thomas and Sotomayor have very compelling life stories, so I can see where their books deals would be worth a lot.