Justice Alito Reports International Travel, Income From Book

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito traveled to several countries in 2025 and made $33,333 from a book, according to a newly released financial disclosure form.

Alito, 76, the second-oldest justice on the nation’s top court, went to Rome in September 2025 to participate in a forum on the economic affairs of the European Union and the United States, according to his disclosure, which was released on Aug. 31. His food, lodging, and travel were paid for by a nonprofit called The Mentor Group.

The following month, Alito participated in the Forum on the Rule of Law in the UK. The Association of Marshall Scholars and American College of Trial Lawyers footed the bill.

Earlier in the year, Arizona State University paid for Alito to speak at a prize dinner in Scottsdale.

Alito’s only non-investment income listed in the disclosure was $33,333 from the Hachette Book Group for publication and copyright royalties. The company is slated to publish a book authored by Alito titled “So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country” on Oct. 6.

A description of the book says, “Justice Samuel A. Alito elaborates on his judicial philosophy and reflects on the roles of the law, the Constitution, and the courts in preserving America’s spirit of liberty.”

Supreme Court justices serve until they step down or until their death and made $306,600 each in 2025 for being part of the court.

Alito said he is an honorary advisory board member at Duke Law School and the Franciscan Monastery for the Holy Land, and he holds various index and mutual funds in addition to stock in companies including Abbott Laboratories, ConocoPhillips, Kenvue, and Mondelez International. He and Chief Justice John Roberts are the only justices to hold individual stocks, according to financial disclosures.

Supreme Court justices are required to report outside income on an annual basis. The deadline is May 15 of the following year. Extensions for up to 90 days are available for “good cause shown.”

Alito’s eight colleagues reported their 2025 disclosures earlier in the year. Some said they made much more in outside income, led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who earned nearly $1.2 million for an advance for a book. Alito was the last justice to report his income for 2024.

The new filing was released after Alito said he would stay on the court and referred to justices’ time on the bench as “life tenure.” A news outlet had over the summer claimed that Alito was retiring, but it retracted the report after acknowledging that neither the justice nor the Supreme Court had confirmed an impending retirement.