Justices’ monetary disclosures reveal Bad Bunny live performance tickets, loads of journey in 2025

Justice Sonia Sotomayor obtained live performance tickets valued at greater than $4,000 from the document firm that represents the Puerto Rican celebrity Bad Bunny, whereas Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson obtained a portray for her chambers valued at $2,500. Those presents, together with different particulars in regards to the justices’ e-book offers, journey, and educating gigs, have been made public within the justices’ annual monetary disclosures, which have been launched on Monday.

The disclosures are comparatively opaque and are supposed to offer details about potential conflicts of curiosity and the justices’ compliance with moral requirements, somewhat than snapshots of the justices’ wealth.

The monetary disclosure types for eight of the 9 justices turned obtainable at midday EDT on Monday. The types have been due on May 15, however federal judges and justices can obtain extensions of as much as 90 days to submit their types. Forms for Justice Samuel Alito, who obtained an extension final yr, are usually not but obtainable on-line.

Sotomayor and Jackson have been the one justices to report presents. Sotomayor indicated that she had obtained $4,333 value of tickets from Rimas Entertainment, which “provided tickets for a concert for me and guests while I was on a private trip to Puerto Rico in August 2025.” Sotomayor didn’t particularly establish the artist who carried out on the live performance, however Bad Bunny played 31 sold-out exhibits in San Juan between July and September 2025. And a September 2025 story on the announcement that Bad Bunny would headline the halftime present on the Super Bowl in February 2026 famous that Sotomayor had attended considered one of his Puerto Rico concert events.

Jackson reported that she had obtained a portray for her chambers from Paul Branton and Kristen Williams. Branton is a Chicago-based artist who posted a portrait of Jackson on social media and indicated that he had despatched it to her as a present.

Five of the eight justices who filed their disclosures on Monday frolicked within the classroom throughout 2025. Both Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Brett Kavanaugh earned $33,285 by educating at Notre Dame Law School, the place Barrett taught for greater than 15 years earlier than changing into a federal choose. Barrett’s work for Notre Dame included a stint in London in October 2025, the place she taught a “legal theory workshop.” Justice Neil Gorsuch earned $30,379.91 for his educating gig in Prague for George Mason University throughout July 2025, whereas Chief Justice John Roberts earned $25,000 for educating at New England Law School. Justice Clarence Thomas stayed nearer to dwelling, incomes $18,000 for educating at Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law.

In 2024, Jackson held the highest spot for the justices’ e-book royalties, reporting roughly $2 million in “book advances.” She remained in first place in 2025, reporting $1,181,250. Barrett, whose e-book Listening to the Law was revealed in September 2025, reported practically $850,000 in “publication/copyright royalties” earnings, whereas Gorsuch reported $300,000 from HarperCollins, which revealed Over Ruled and Heroes of 1776 (a youngsters’s e-book), in 2024 and 2026, respectively. Gorsuch additionally obtained $361.47 from Princeton University Press, which revealed his book on assisted suicide and euthanasia in 2009. Sotomayor reported $88,100 in earnings from Penguin Random House, which has revealed a number of of her books, together with youngsters’s books.

Several justices additionally reported reimbursements for journey, together with abroad. Justice Elena Kagan stayed within the United States, touring to guage a moot court docket at Pepperdine University’s Caruso School of Law in September 2025. In addition to her educating gig in London, Barrett additionally traveled to Oxford, England, in July 2025 for a “judicial forum,” whereas Jackson went to Dublin to just accept an award from Trinity College and take part in a “moderated discussion with students.” And Sotomayor went to the Dominican Republic in May 2025 to just accept an award from the World Jurist Association.