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USBad Bunny’s label gifted concert tickets to Sonia Sotomayor - The justices’ financial disclosures reveal book royalties, investments and paid teaching gigs.
Bad Bunny performs during his concert residency in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 20, 2025. | Gladys Vega/Getty Images
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor received concert tickets valued at more than $4,000 from superstar Bad Bunny’s record label during his blockbuster residency in Puerto Rico last summer, according to Sotomayor’s annual financial disclosure.
Sotomayor’s form indicates that she received the tickets for herself and an unspecified number of guests from Rimas Entertainment, Bad Bunny’s record label, “while I was on a private trip to Puerto Rico in August 2025.”
Sotomayor, the first Supreme Court justice of Puerto Rican descent, put the value of the tickets at $4,333. Her disclosure doesn’t explicitly say the tickets were for a Bad Bunny concert.
Spokespeople for Rimas and for the court did not immediately respond to queries about the gift.
It was revealed when the federal courts released disclosure forms Monday for eight of the nine sitting justices. According to a spokesperson for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Justice Samuel Alito received a 60-day extension to complete his, as he has for more than a decade.
The reports reflect the justices’ income from outside sources such as investments, teaching and books. Books are the most financially rewarding projects for many justices.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson led the pack in book income, reporting about $1.18 million last year. She’d already received about $3 million in prior years for her autobiography, “Lovely One.” It was unclear whether the latest payment, described as an “advance,” was for that book or a future one.
Justice Neil Gorsuch pulled in $300,000 in “royalty income” from publisher Harper Collins. In 2024, he published a book on overregulation, “Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law.” In May, he published a children’s book tied to the 250th Anniversary of the U.S., “Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration of Independence.” Both were co-authored with Janie Nitze, a former law clerk.
Sotomayor came in behind that among the sitting justices with about $89,000 in book royalties. Retired Justice Anthony Kennedy landed ahead of Sotomayor with about $151,000 in book income.
While many justices reported paid teaching and accepting free travel for speaking engagements, few gifts were recorded on the latest reports. Jackson reported receipt of this painting for her chambers. She valued it at $2,500.
Chief Justice John Roberts’ salary this year is $320,700. The other justices make $306,600 a year.
A completely artificial corporate artist who was astroturfed to stardom and disappeared once the corpos got what they wanted by removing the ladder from underneath him. And like all corporate stooges, he couldn't avoid drowning without the corporations to put on his floaties.
It is insane to me the SCOTUS, members of Congress and the President (among others) are allowed to openly accept bribes like this. They should be limited solely to the income provided by their position. Or at a minimum any income beyond their salary is held in trust until they leave office or die.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson led the pack in book income, reporting about $1.18 million last year. She’d already received about $3 million in prior years for her autobiography, “Lovely One.” It was unclear whether the latest payment, described as an “advance,” was for that book or a future one.
Goddamn, how the shit can a publisher move enough product to make that profitable? Are there really that many morons desperate to read Kentanji's brain farts? Or do they have some captive schools to get class orders in or some other skeevy shit?
Goddamn, how the shit can a publisher move enough product to make that profitable? Are there really that many morons desperate to read Kentanji's brain farts? Or do they have some captive schools to get class orders in or some other skeevy shit?
The publishers buy five tractor-trailer loads of them and stash them in a parking lot in Dubuque.
It therefore makes the NYT bestseller list the day it hits the market, so every liberal drone goes out to Amazon and buys a copy...... for that decorative bookshelf they use as a warding circle to keep nasty Trumpists and MAGAchuds away from their overpriced big city apartment.
Goddamn, how the shit can a publisher move enough product to make that profitable? Are there really that many morons desperate to read Kentanji's brain farts? Or do they have some captive schools to get class orders in or some other skeevy shit?
