The U.S. Supreme Court responded to investigative claims that Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s staffers pressured colleges to buy her books over the years amid reports that she amassed millions of dollars in net worth since she was named to the high court more than a decade ago.
A report published Tuesday by The Associated Press said it obtained new details about her team’s efforts through open records requests to public institutions, said that Mrs. Sotomayor’s staff has often prodded public institutions that have hosted the justice to buy her memoir as well as her children’s books since she joined the Supreme Court in 2009….