Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Lucrative Memoir to Come in Fall (1)

Amy Coney Barrett will detail her daily life as a US Supreme Court justice and how she deals with “media scrutiny” in a memoir debuting in September.

Barrett’s “Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution,” will come out Sept. 9 in the run up to the Supreme Court’s new term, Penguin Random House announced Friday.

“In ‘Listening to the Law,’ Justice Barrett illuminates her role and daily life as a justice, touching on everything from her deliberation process to dealing with media scrutiny,” Penguin Random House said in a statement.

Barrett, 53, a nominee of President Donald Trump, became the fifth female justice in US history following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg shortly before the 2020 presidential election.

Barrett has come under criticism from Trump supporters since voting earlier this month against letting his administration withhold foreign aid payments. Charleston, South Carolina, police said Barrett’s sister was subsequently targeted with a bomb threat, ABC News and other news organizations have reported.

While speaking at a judicial conference in September, Barrett said “one of the most difficult” parts of the job has been adjusting to having a security detail. She said her young son once saw her return home in a bulletproof vest.

The justices have been under 24/7 security since a draft of the court’s 2022 decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion was leaked to the press. The ruling sparked protests outside some of the justices’ homes.

Trump appointed the former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia and Notre Dame Law School professor to the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2017.

Barrett, who has largely avoided interviews in her time on the high court, joins the growing roster of justices who’ve written lucrative memoirs. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did a nationwide book tour and appeared on multiple television programs after the debut of her memoir, “Lovely One,” last September.

Barrett reportedly signed a $2 million deal for her book. In 2021 she disclosed receiving $425,000 in “book royalties” from Javelin Group LLC, a literary agency based in Alexandria, Va.

Penguin Random House faced calls to cancel Barrett’s book. A group pf publishing professionals circulated an open letter that said they believe moving forward with the book would be in direct conflict with the publisher’s own code of conduct and international human rights, Publishers Weekly reported.

The letter cited Barrett’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion in 2022 and said she imposed her own religious and moral agenda on the American people even though her forthcoming book is about how judges aren’t supposed to bring their personal feelings into how they rule.