Supreme Court’s Barrett Got $425,000 in Book Royalties Last Year

US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett collected $425,000 in royalties last year for an as-yet unannounced book, according to her newly released financial disclosure report.

The royalties more than doubled Barrett’s 2021 non-investment income, which included her $268,300 salary as an associate justice and $14,280 in teaching income from the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Politico reported in April that Barrett had secured a $2 million advance for a book about the duty of judges to keep their personal views out of their rulings. That sum would be the largest ever for a Supreme Court justice, topping the ...