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You're so much the Supreme Court Justices

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made last year by Madeline

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Carlisle, new Financial

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disclosure reports, released Thursday

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revealed how much the u s Supreme

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Court Justices made last year and

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show that some of them were able to add six,

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figures to their salaries, through

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lucrative deals. Amy,

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Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court's newest

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member reported in her 2021

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disclosure that she received $425,000

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last year from the traveling group. a

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literary agent in book royalties

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politico reported last april that

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just disparate had sold a book

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about how judges must remain neutral

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for a two million dollar advance

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there is no law limiting how much justices

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can make from book publications

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and numerous justices have written

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books on their background and judicial

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philosophy the or gorsedd to

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join the bench and twenty seventeen reported

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two hundred fifty thousand dollars and earnings from

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publisher harper collins and twenty twenty

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one politico reported thursday

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that the are such as signed a deal

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with the company to write a new book on judicial

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and regulatory policy course

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it's published a book with penguin random

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house and twenty nine teen titled or

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republic if you can keep it the

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reported earning three hundred twenty five thousand

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dollars and twenty nineteen and one

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hundred thousand dollars and twenty twenty and

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royalty and come from the publisher

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sonia sotomayor who the washington

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post reports as disclosed more than three

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point three million dollars and book payments

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sense twenty ten reported earning

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one hundred fifteen thousand five hundred ninety

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three dollars and book royalties from penguin

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random house last year with whom

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she has released multiple children's books

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this book income is in addition to a

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base salary of two hundred sixty eight

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thousand three hundred dollars and twenty twenty one

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for the eight associate justices and

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two hundred eighty thousand five hundred dollars

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for chief justice john roberts justices

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or legally limited to not

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earn more than roughly thirty thousand dollars

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for outside teaching several

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justices aren't close to that and twenty

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and twenty clarence thomas

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reported earning twenty nine thousand five

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hundred ninety five dollars from george

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washington university school of law and

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university of notre dame combined

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er sich earned twenty six thousand five hundred

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forty one dollars from george mason university

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brett kavanaugh made twenty five thousand

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five hundred forty one dollars from george

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mason and barrett made fourteen

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thousand two hundred eighty dollars from the university

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of notre dame where she was

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previously was professor samuel

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alito disclosures have not yet

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been released and the washington post

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reported that court officials said he

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filed for an extension the

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supreme court did not respond to time's

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request for comment the twenty

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twenty one financial disclosures published

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online by the court reform advocacy

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organization six the courts

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come during a period of heightened scrutiny

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on supreme court ethics reforms on

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may thirteenth president joe biden

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signed a law that will increase financial

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disclosure requirements for federal

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judges and supreme court justices

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going forward mandating a

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creation of an online database

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where the public can search federal judges

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and supreme court justices financial

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disclosure the law also

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mandates the judges and justices

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follow the same financial disclosure rules

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as congress which require them

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to file transaction reports the

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new law will take effect by the time the justices

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release their financial disclosures next

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year the latest

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financial disclosures were released within weeks

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of when the justices are expected to rule

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on are the most anticipated supreme

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court cases and a generation dobbs

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the jackson women's health organization

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after an unprecedented leak of a draft

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opinion in the case written by alito

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so the supreme court poised to overturn

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the constitutional right to abortion access

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enshrined in nineteen seventy threes roe

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v wade