According to annual financial disclosure forms, book publishers paid four Supreme Court justices more than $2.4 million in 2025. Ketanji Brown Jackson received more than $1.18 million from Penguin Random House for a “book advance.” Random House published her memoir Lovely One in September 2024, and issued a YA adaptation in January. She has been paid over $4.14 million in total by PRH. Penguin Random House paid Sonia Sotomayor $88,000 in royalties for Turning Pages and Just Ask! after her agent’s commission. In addition, she writes that “Penguin Random House has advised me that it spent $7473 to support the […]
