The Supreme Court just released its annual financial disclosures, and it looks like Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is raking in the dough.
The 2024 disclosures reveal that Jackson received a more than $2 million advance from Penguin Random House, the company behind her memoir “Lovely One.” Other justices have also received money from book deals, according to an NBC News report.
“Justice Neil Gorsuch reported a $250,000 advance from HarperCollins, which published a book he co-wrote called ‘Over Ruled,’ and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who has written several books, received a new $60,000 advance from Penguin Random House,” the outlet reports. “Sotomayor has earned close to $4 million in total from her books, according to the ethics watchdog Fix the Court. Jackson received a total of almost $3 million from her publisher for ‘Lovely One,’ including a $900,000 payment in 2023.”
Social media users are wondering about the ethical concerns, as well as how many books are actually being sold to real people:
I would be very curious to know how many books she actually sold. https://t.co/aShZN88Red
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 17, 2025
Sold to real people, that is. Rather than in bulk to various orgs that give them out for free or in exchange for donations.
— Missy (@mirandamelendy) June 17, 2025
Sotomayer didn’t recuse on a case that involved her publisher whereas Breyer did.
— Cranky Cold War Vet (@Bhess) June 17, 2025
About as many as Hunter sold paintings.
And for the same reasons, probably.
— knotgrumpy (@knotgrumpy) June 17, 2025
Aren’t book deals just another money laundering tool for DC elites?
— George (@george0X7B2) June 18, 2025
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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