A Radical Company is Paying Supreme Court Justices Millions

[Elderberry]

Gatestone Institute by Daniel Greenfield 7/9/2025

Jackson received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year. These would be record numbers for a Supreme Court Justice's biography from a book that hardly anyone had noticed when it came out. And while books can become unexpected successes once released, there was little sign of that happening.

Penguin Random House will be publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett's book for which she received a $2 million advance. That's money the publisher seems even less likely to recoup considering that Barrett is hated among leftists and has a mixed approval rating among conservatives. Past polls show that the majority of the country can't even name a single Supreme Court justice, yet they are receiving celebrity level advances for books no one cares about.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had been previously criticized for not recusing herself in cases involving Penguin which had paid her over $3 million.

Penguin is actually Bertelsmann: a German ex-Nazi publishing giant that has waged war on American parents, promoted racism and is trying to monopolistically gobble up all of American publishing. Ibram X. Kendi's "How to Be an Antiracist", Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility", Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Between the World and Me", and, during WWII, "The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth" all came out of Bertelsmann.

While the ex-Nazi foreign corporation operates under familiar names like Penguin, Random House, Doubleday, Ballantine, Knopf, Viking, Putnam, Bantam, Del Rey, Golden Books and many others, it's actually a foreign company pushing deeply destructive products. Even as parents tried to stop their children from being exposed to sexually inappropriate content, former CEO Markus Dohle went to war against them with a $500,000 legal fund.

[A] foreign company that has tried to completely monopolize American publishing by seizing control of Simon and Schuster, and has intervened in American politics, is ... troubling.

Bertelsmann millions have gone mostly unexamined even as ProPublica, a leftist advocacy group, launched a smear campaign against Justice Thomas. The Thomas smears were repeated by every media outlet in the country which pursued the 76-year-old justice's 96-year-old mother to find out where exactly she lives and who paid the tuition for his grandnephew, yet shrug when the Supreme Court can't even form a quorum over millions from a multinational giant that has business before the court being directed to justices

Justice Jackson making millions for a ghostwritten memoir after spending less time on the bench than most dustcloths is an equally obvious exercise in cashing in, not literary inspiration.

More: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21733/bertelsmann-paying-supreme-court-justices

[DefiantMassRINO]

IMHO, book advances and speaker fees are money laundering mechanism for bribes that obscure the source of truth of the funds.

[Fishrrman]

Time for the Justice Department to start investigating these ladies.

Yes, all of them.

No way these "advances" will pay out for the book publishers as much as they're slipping these justices up front. Something else is going on here.

[mountaineer]

Who really would actually spend money on an autobiography from that dimwit Jackson? Pretty much no one, I suspect.

... The financial disclosure forms for eight of the nine justices became available at noon EDT on Tuesday. The forms were due on May 15, but federal judges and justices can receive extensions of up to 90 days to submit their forms. Forms for Justice Samuel Alito, who received an extension last year, are not yet available online.

The roughly $2 million that Jackson received in “book advance(s)” from Penguin Random House was by far the largest sum reported by any of the justices on Tuesday. But two others reported sizable sums: Justice Neil Gorsuch received $250,000 from HarperCollins, which published Over Ruled, his 2024 book with his former clerk, Janie Nitze, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor reported nearly $134,000 in book royalties and an advance from Penguin Random House.

Four of the justices spent time in the classroom during 2024. Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh served as adjunct professors at Notre Dame’s law school (where Barrett taught for more than 15 years before becoming a federal judge), earning $31,815 each. Gorsuch served as an adjunct professor at George Mason University, earning $30,379.91 for an approximately two-week teaching stint in Porto, Portugal. And Chief Justice John Roberts taught a nearly two-week class on the Supreme Court in Galway, Ireland, for New England Law School.  ...

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