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Leftist Supreme Court Justices Rally for Monster Who Beat 75-Year-Old Woman to Death
Justice Sotomayor loves monsters.
Tell me what you care about and I’ll tell you who you are. I care about Dorothy Epps who was brutally beaten to death in her home. Justice Sotomayor and her fellow court leftists care about the monster who killed her.
Here’s what happened.
On Sunday, May 20, 2001, James Barber brutally murdered Dorothy Epps at her home in Harvest, Alabama, taking her life so that he could steal her purse.
Dorothy Epps was home alone the night of her murder. Mrs. Epps knew and had a friendly relationship with James Barber, who in the past had dated her daughter and had been hired to do repair work on her house. When Barber knocked on Mrs. Epps’s door, she probably invited him inside, having no reason to suspect his malevolent intent.
After entering her home, Barber viciously and mercilessly attacked Mrs. Epps, a 75-year-old woman who weighed 100 pounds, striking her in the face and then beating her to death with his fists and a claw hammer.
Dorothy Epps suffered multiple skull fractures, head lacerations, fractured ribs, injuries to her neck, mouth, and eye, and bleeding over her brain. She also suffered multiple defensive wounds, establishing that she was facing Barber at times, was conscious and aware of what was happening, and tried to fend off his blows with her bare hands.
After murdering Mrs. Epps, Barber grabbed her purse and ran from the scene, leaving behind him a home now covered in blood, including on the floors, furniture, walls, and ceiling. He also left bloody footprints on Mrs. Epps’s body—and a bloody handprint on a counter.
Days later, Barber was arrested and voluntarily confessed to the murder of Dorothy Epps, providing police with an elaborate account of his crimes. He admitted that “the crime was senseless and stupid” and that he deserved “to be charged and put to death” for committing it.
Justice Sotomayor and her fellow pro-crime justices disagree.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, declined to block the execution of James Barber, who was put to death at about 2 a.m. local time.
“This court’s decision denying Barber’s request for a stay allows Alabama to experiment again with a human life,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion joined by her liberal colleagues, Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Barber had argued that the execution would violate his right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment under the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment.
Barber was executed by lethal injection, which is a far kinder death than he gave Dorothy Epps. He got a last meal of “loaded hash browns, a western omelet, spicy sausage and toast” and, despite the pro-crime leftist clamor, including by the court’s Wise Latina, suffered no particular pain.
He also lived for over two decades after the murder.
To whatever extent Barber is a victim, it’s not of Alabama which kept him around all these years and gently executed him, but of the dysfunctional leftist drug culture that pro-crime activists helped nurture.
Barber first used cocaine around age 20 and started using it “quite heavily” when he began making good money at his job. Around this time, he stopped using marijuana and primarily used alcohol and cocaine. Although he was known for his good demeanor “when he was not high on substances,” when he was high, his personality changed-“obnoxious was the word [she] heard over and over again,”. He had romantic relationships, but they fell apart because of his substance abuse. He had become somewhat violent with family members, once punching his younger brother and once punching his 13-year-old nephew in the back when his nephew commented that he was staggering. He was arrested for slapping Liz Epps, the victim’s daughter.
Barber would sometimes “stay high for about three, four days” with little sleep. Most of the money he made went to drugs, and he often stole or borrowed money from friends to buy drugs. He used cocaine heavily for about 10 years, was sober for about a year, and then relapsed after an injury that led him from pain pills back to cocaine. At the time of Epps’ death, Rosenzweig reported, Barber was using “about three to four hundred dollars’ worth of crack cocaine a week and had also resumed his use of alcohol” a few weeks earlier.
This is the ‘brave new world’ that the pro-crime Left has given us. The Left creates monsters, unleashes them, and then blames us for trying to protect ourselves from its monsters.
Tell me what you care about and I’ll tell you who you are. I care about Dorothy Epps who was brutally beaten to death in her home. Justice Sotomayor and her fellow court leftists care about the monster who killed her.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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The ‘wise Latina’ is suddenly ‘la millonaria Latina'
Can Justice Sonia Sotomayor refer us to her investment counselor? The wise Latina's finances have done rather well since joining SCOTUS. This is the story:
Sonia Sotomayor's net worth has increased significantly since joining the nation's highest court, according to financial disclosure forms amid new revelations about the Supreme Court justice's efforts to promote her books.
Sotomayor was nominated by then-President Barack Obama to join the Supreme Court in 2009. At the time, her wealth was a small fraction of what it is now.
In 2007, the sum of Sotomayor's total investments was between $50,001 and $115,000, according to her financial disclosure form for that year. She reported only two assets: a checking account and a savings account, both at Citibank.
And there is more:
Since then, Sotomayor's net worth has skyrocketed, putting her among the ranks of the nation's millionaires. In 2021, her investments totaled somewhere between $1.5 million and $6.4 million, according to financial disclosure forms. Last year, investments were roughly the same, in between $1.6 million and $6.6 million.
It must be something in the water, because the man once known as a community organizer is suddenly a millionaire too.
As Sophie Tucker once said: “I’ve been rich, and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.” Justice Sotomayor has certainly adopted that attitude.
Power to Justice Sotomayor and to anyone who makes it big. Maybe we can let up on Justice Clarence Thomas and judge him and the others on their opinions.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Endless Greed
“Is there a reminder going out that people need to purchase a book"
When you see famous people touring with a memoir or children’s book (when they’re famous for something other than writing children’s books) it’s because they’re trying to move copies. The places that host them are expected to buy a whole bunch of those books so the publisher can recoup the advance and make money.
Nothing too extraordinary about that, but it’s tacky when done by a Supreme Court justice.
Justice Sotomayor collected more than $1.9 million in advances and promotion for her memoir, My Beloved World, published by Knopf Doubleday.
And the money just kept coming in.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor didn’t recuse herself from multiple cases involving a book publisher – Penguin Random House – which paid her more than $3 million since 2010, according to a report.
After My Beloved World, Sotomayor began writing children’s books. Would people normally buy them in a bookstore? Maybe not.
So Sotomayor went on book tours.
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.
Normal enough, but vulgar behavior for a justice. And doing it with a library is especially fetid.
In 2019, as Sotomayor traveled the country to promote her new children’s book, “Just Ask!,” library and community college officials in Portland, Oregon, jumped at the chance to host an event.
They put in long hours and accommodated the shifting requests of Sotomayor’s court staff. Then, as the public cost of hosting the event soared almost tenfold, a Sotomayor aide emailed with a different, urgent concern: She said the organizers did not buy enough copies of the justice’s book, which attendees had to purchase or have on hand in order to meet Sotomayor after her talk.
“For an event with 1,000 people and they have to have a copy of Just Ask to get into the line, 250 books is definitely not enough,” the aide, Anh Le, wrote staffers at the Multnomah County Library. “Families purchase multiples and people will be upset if they are unable to get in line because the book required is sold out.”
Uh-huh. It was all about the kids.
There’s nothing specifically corrupt here apart from Sotomayor’s failure to recuse herself from cases involving Bertelsmann, an ex-Nazi woke company using the name Penguin Random House in America. But there’s no clear evidence of any significant impact. So it’s slimy and leaves a bad taste, but not clearly corrupt.
Until Sotomayor decided to lie about it.
“Justice Sotomayor would have recused in cases in which Penguin Random House was a party, in light of her close and ongoing relationship with the publisher,” the Supreme Court said in a statement. “An inadvertent omission failed to bring Penguin’s participation in several cases to her attention; those cases ultimately were not selected for review by the Court. Chambers’ conflict check procedures have since been changed.”
A person close to Sotomayor, who insisted on anonymity to discuss the justice’s book dealings, said that Sotomayor “has not and will not profit from sales” of her memoir beyond the $3.1 million advance that she received and that doing so would “require purchases of hundreds of thousands of additional books — more than double the purchases to date.”
Sotomayor, however, continues to earn royalties — at least $400,000 since 2019 — from sales of her children’s literature, including “Just Ask!,” her second best-selling book, which was the promotional focus of the 2019 event held in Portland, emails and records show.
Major political figures get massive advances. No royalties are expected. Penguin clearly expected Sotomayor to promote the book and she more than kept up her end of the bargain.
Nothing illegal here, but the sheer vulgar greed on display really shows what she is.
As the talk neared, Le shifted her focus to books, which were offered for sale online to those who obtained tickets to the free event.
“Can you please show me the screen where people can purchase books?” Le wrote library staffers as they prepared to make the tickets available. “Are you just placing Just Ask … on the portal or all of the Justice’s books.”
When the free tickets were quickly snapped up, she asked library officials to publicize that those who could not get tickets could still meet the justice if they purchased a book.
A day later, she followed with another email, concerned that not enough of the people who got tickets had also purchased a book.
“Is there a reminder going out that people need to purchase a book at the event or bring a book to get into the signing line?” Le wrote. “Most of the registrants did not purchase books.”
Still, when she found out event organizers had only purchased 250 copies of Sotomayor’s book, she sent an email telling library officials that the quantity was “definitely not enough.”
This reminds me of the obnoxious emails Hillary’s people sent around when scheduling anything. There’s something about socialists not wanting to leave a dime on the table.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Sotomayor Uses Supreme Court Staff To Hawk Her Books
Staffers for Supreme Court justice Sonya Sotomayor have pushed colleges and libraries to purchase her books and earn profits for the justice, a practice critics have described as ethically questionable.
Sotomayor, who has earned at least $3.7 million from her memoir and children's book sales since joining the Court in 2009, has used her staff to push colleges and other institutions to buy loads of her books when she speaks at events, according to the Associated Press. Members of Congress and the executive branch are not allowed to personally benefit from their staffers' work because of government ethics rules, which the Supreme Court is not mandated to follow.
The Court said in a statement that staffers help to advise venues on book ordering for events.
"When [Sotomayor] is invited to participate in a book program, Chambers staff recommends the number of books [to order] based on the size of the audience so as not to disappoint attendees who may anticipate books being available at an event," the Court said in a statement.
Records requests show staffers pushing event organizers to purchase books.
"For an event with 1,000 people and they have to have a copy of Just Ask to get into the line, 250 books is definitely not enough," aide Anh Le told workers at the Multnomah County Library ahead of a 2019 Sotomayor visit. "Families purchase multiples and people will be upset if they are unable to get in line because the book required is sold out."
Kedric Payne, a former congressional ethics official, told the AP the aides' conduct violates "one of the most basic tenets of ethics laws that protects taxpayer dollars from misuse."
Sotomayor stands out among justices in using her office to promote her books, the AP reported:
Sotomayor, whose annual salary this year is $285,400, is not alone in earning money by writing books. Such income is exempt from the court’s $30,000 restriction on outside yearly pay. But none of the justices has as forcefully leveraged publicly sponsored travel to boost book sales as has Sotomayor, according to emails and other records reviewed by the AP.
Sotomayor’s publisher, Penguin Random House, also has played a role in organizing her talks, in some cases pressing public institutions to commit to buying a specific number of copies or requesting that attendees purchase books to obtain tickets, emails show. The publisher has had several matters before the court in which Sotomayor did not recuse herself.
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Biden’s America: Confidence in Major U.S. Institutions Slumps to All-Time Low
Is America still blossoming as the land of the free and home of the brave under President Joe Biden? A majority of voters think not.
A plunge in faith in U.S. societal institutions that once defined the nation started last year and has continued, Gallup revealed Thursday, showing a near record number of voters look at their country today and despair at what they see.
In 2022, the national polling service recorded huge slumps in confidence in 11 of the 16 institutions ranked by Gallup annually, with the Biden presidency (23 percent) taking one of the the biggest hits.
UPI reports in Thursday’s poll, 26 percent of respondents said they had faith in the presidency, just behind 27 percent who said they had a great deal of faith in the Supreme Court.
The low support matches how voters also feel about the national economy under Biden as he readies to run for high office again in 2024.
Respondents said they had the most faith in small businesses (65 percent), the military (60 percent) and the police (43 percent). Faith in the police, though, was still stuck on a low matching that of 2022.
The public said they had the least faith in Congress (eight percent), followed by a tie between big business and television news at 14 percent each. The criminal justice system followed at 17 percent and newspapers at 18 percent.
All up, Gallup said the average confidence in major U.S. institutions fell to an all-time low of 26 percent on Biden’s watch.
The lack of overall confidence in the presidency and the nation is also matched by the current lack of faith in vice President Kamala Harris, as Breitbart News reported.
Harris entered the record books last month when an NBC News poll revealed she is the most unpopular vice president in history.
The poll showed 49 percent of registered voters have a negative view of the 58-year-old compared to 32 percent in the positive.
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Overall Harris received a net negative rating of -17. That is the lowest net negative rating for a vice president in the history of the poll when up against the last four vice presidents during their tenures, with Mike Pence -4 in Oct. 2019, Joe Biden +1 in Dec. 2010, Dick Cheney +23 in May 2003, and Al Gore +15 in March 1995.
The dire numbers come as White House officials work with Harris to repair her image and allay fears expressed as far back as 2021 that she is a liability to Democratic hopes to retain power.
Read the Gallup poll figures in full here
The poll’s results are based on telephone interviews conducted June 1-22, with a random sample of 1,013 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia ,with a margin of sampling error is four percent at the 95 percent confidence level
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