african american woman on the court, received a payment from a publisher last year for almost $900,000. >> conservative justice neil gorsuch reported book royalty income of $250,000 fellow conservative brett kavanaugh, who is writing a memoir, listed a payment for $340,000 thank justices are allowed to have some outside income, but most of their outside income is kept around $30,000 was except you do not have to have a limit on book royalties and fees so these justices who signed these multi-million dollar contracts are not subject to any cap and they can make as much as they can from these book deals. but critics say all of this as well as the recent reporting that conservative justice samuel alito and his wife flew flags at their homes that were also flown by january 6, rioters doesn't present the best optics for the court alito had previously drawn criticism for going on a luxury fishing trip on the private jet of a conservative hedge fund manager, a trip that was not