The Supreme Court justices reported Friday that they are receiving big-money advances for writing books about themselves or the law, often shortly after arriving at the court. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reported she received an $893,750 advance last year for a memoir she plans to write called 'Lovely One.
' The justices, who earn $298,500 a year, are limited in how much they can earn in outside income, such as through teaching, but there is no limit on how much they can earn through writing books. This trend of justices writing memoirs may be traced to 2002 when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor published 'Lazy B', which recounted her growing up on her family's cattle ranch in Arizona.
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