Publishing Staffers Call for Cancellation of Amy Coney Barrett's Book Deal

In an open letter to Penguin Random House, regarding Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s publishing deal, signatories call it “a case where a corporation has privately funded the destruction of human rights with obscene profits.” “The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health that overturned Roe hinged on exactly what Coney Barrett’s book is reportedly about—the judiciary’s role and ‘how judges are not supposed to bring their personal feelings into how they rule,’” the letter said. “Yet, it seems this is exactly what Coney Barrett has done, inflicting her own religious and moral agenda upon all Americans while appropriating the rhetoric of even-handedness—and Penguin Random House has agreed to pay her a sum of $2 million to do it.” The letter purports that publishing the book would violate both Penguin Random House’s Code of Conduct and international human rights.