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Supreme Court Disclosures Reveal $2M Memoir Windfall and Other Book Earnings

They underscore gaps in financial reporting despite the Supreme Court’s new ethics code.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks to the 2025 Supreme Court Fellows Program, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., U.S.     Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Neil Gorsuch.
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Overview

  • Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reported over $2 million from Penguin Random House for her memoir “Lovely One,” following a nearly $900,000 advance and national promotional tour.
  • Justice Sonia Sotomayor disclosed nearly $134,000 in book income, including a $60,000 advance for her forthcoming children’s title “Just Shine!.”
  • Justice Neil Gorsuch received roughly $250,000 in royalties for his book “Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law.”
  • Several justices accepted institution-funded travel for lectures and conferences abroad, notably Sotomayor’s trips to Switzerland, Panama and Austria, Gorsuch’s visits to Germany and Portugal and Chief Justice John Roberts’s course in Ireland.
  • Justice Samuel Alito was granted an extension to file his disclosure and Justice Clarence Thomas reported no gifts or trips but added a previously omitted life insurance policy.