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Posted by: Paul Burch on May 9, 2023

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch failed to recuse themselves when considering cert petitions involving their book publishers, the ABA Journal reports. Sotomayor received over $3 million in advance payments between 2010 and 2012 from Penguin Random House. Her disclosure forms also show nearly $500,000 in book royalties and advances from 2017-2021. Penguin had cases before the court in 2013, 2019 and 2020. Gorsuch reported earnings of $655,000 on his book published in 2019 according to financial disclosure for 2018, 2019 and 2020. He did not recuse himself from considering a cert petition in a recent case, according to the Journal. In related news, an article today from SCOTUSblog has information about all of the justices’ 2023 financial disclosures.