Bad Bunny's record label gave concert tickets to Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson was the court's highest-earning author.
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Supreme Court justices earned millions from books, teaching and other outside income in 2025, newly released financial disclosures show.
Why it matters: The disclosures provide one of the public's few windows into justices' outside income, gifts and financial relationships as ethics scrutiny of the court persists.
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Eight of the nine justices disclosed their 2025 outside income and gifts, as required for certain government officials. Samuel…
Last year, the Supreme Court justices received free concert tickets, money tied to lucrative book deals, and supplemental income…
Supreme Court justices can make a considerable amount of outside income from writing books, as their financial disclosure reports…
One justice also received free concert tickets from Bad Bunny’s record label.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was gifted concert tickets in Puerto Rico last year as members of the high court continued…
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