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Sonia Sotomayor: Ethics & Recusals

Sonia Sotomayor’s ethics record is smaller in scale than several colleagues covered in this series, and it involves no undisclosed gifts or luxury travel. It centers on two connected issues: her staff’s role in promoting her personal book sales, and a documented process failure that led her to participate in cases involving her own publisher when she should have stepped aside. ...

September 4, 2026 · Editor