Sotomayor’s $4,333 – Justice Sonia Sotomayor disclosed receiving $4,333 in concert tickets from Rimas Entertainment for a trip to Puerto Rico in August 2025, while the annual disclosure reports released Monday show other large book-related payments and travel—along with a recurrin
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s latest financial disclosure landed with a familiar kind of question mark: not whether something was reported, but what exactly the public is allowed to see.
In a report made public Monday. Sotomayor disclosed receiving $4. 333 in concert tickets from Rimas Entertainment. a Puerto Rican record label that counts Bad Bunny among its clients. The disclosure says the tickets were “for a concert for me and guests while I was on a private trip to Puerto Rico in August 2025. ” when Bad Bunny took part in a weekslong series of performances in Puerto Rico.
The concert-tickets detail was one of several notable revelations contained in the annual disclosure reports from Supreme Court justices and other members of the judiciary released Monday—hours after the high court handed down some of the most important decisions of its current term.
The same documents also paint a picture of how much the justices earn beyond the bench. The justices reported more than $2 million in payments from publishers for books and trips across the country to promote those works. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson—nominated by President Joe Biden—reported $1.2 million in book “advance” revenue from Penguin Random House. Jackson continues to tour the country promoting her memoir. “Lovely One. ” which she published in 2024. and she recently published a young adult version of her book.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett—President Donald Trump’s last nominee to the high court—reported nearly $850. 000 in revenue from Javelin Group. which last year published her first book. “Listening to the Law.” Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch reported $300. 000 in royalty income last year from HarperCollins Publishers. as he appears at events promoting a children’s book he wrote focused on the Declaration of Independence.
Still. for all the numbers. the disclosures come with a constraint that critics often point to: they don’t consistently provide the level of specificity readers want. Nowhere does Sotomayor’s report explicitly mention which concert she attended. A court spokesperson did not respond to questions about Sotomayor’s report.
That lack of detail matters in a system where outside income is tightly regulated—but not in every way.
Supreme Court justices, who earn more than $300,000 a year, are barred from receiving more than about $30,000 in outside income annually. Book revenue is exempt from that policy, creating an incentive for the nine to write beyond their opinions.
The disclosures also show how other parts of the yearly routine can vary. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito asked for additional time to file his annual report, as has been his practice over the years.
Travel appears throughout the reports as well, with multiple trips abroad and within the US. Barrett. for example. reported traveling to London last fall for a “legal theory workshop” paid for by the University of Notre Dame Law School. Gorsuch traveled to Prague in July for an “educational program” sponsored by George Mason University.
Taken together, Monday’s releases put hard figures on paper—concert tickets, book advances, royalties, and paid travel—while leaving readers with the same unresolved tension: what the public can learn from the disclosures is real, but what the reports don’t specify can still feel out of reach.
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