Supreme Court Justice Received MILLIONS From Book Publication, Reports Claim

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson collected nearly $3 million from her book published by Penguin Random House, multiple outlets reported.

Jackson’s financial disclosures reportedly revealed that the publisher paid her a roughly $2 million advance for the publication, “Lovely One: A Memoir.”

According to POLITICO, Jackson also received about $900,000 from Penguin Random House in 2023.

From the New York Post:

Jackson’s financial disclosure report indicated that Penguin Random House paid her a $2,068,750 book advance in 2024. The company also provided reimbursements for transportation, food, and lodging to promote her book at events across the country.

“Lovely One,” whose title references her West African birth name’s meaning, was published in early September, and is described by Amazon as “tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation.”

Her book tour spanned the country with stops in major cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Miami and Atlanta.

This is not the first time Penguin Random House has sent her a massive payment, as a similar disclosure report revealed the company paid her a $893,750 book advance in 2023, bringing the total over two years to almost $3 million.

POLITICO reports:

The amount paid to the court’s newest justice is roughly the same figure Justice Sonia Sotomayor received as an advance for her 2014 autobiography, “My Beloved World.” Her disclosure released Tuesday reports that she received about $132,000 last year from Penguin Random House for her past books and a forthcoming one.

Sotomayor has earned a total of $3.9 million in advances and royalties from her books, according to Fix the Court, a watchdog group that analyzes the justices’ annual financial disclosures. That’s the highest book-related income of any current justice.

Three other justices have earned more than $1 million in income from books they have written, according to Fix the Court’s analysis: Jackson at $2.9 million, Clarence Thomas at $1.5 million and Neil Gorsuch at $1.4 million.

Gorsuch reported in his new disclosure Tuesday a $250,000 advance last year from publisher HarperCollins for a book he co-authored about overregulation, “Over Ruled.”

Justice Amy Coney Barrett is also writing a book, due out in September, titled “Listening to the Law,” and published by an imprint of Penguin. She received a $425,000 advance for it in 2021.



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