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Judge Barrett may be confident that the book project will not detract from her focus on her judicial duties, and she may well be right. But from the perspective of the average American who is grinding out a living at 40k a year, the optics of a judge — who is paid $250,000 in tax dollars to do the people’s business as a justice — moonlighting for $2 million on a book deal, are problematic.
— Professor Charles Geyh of Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law, who specializes in judicial ethics, commenting on the $2 million advance Justice Amy Coney Barrett will reportedly receive for her forthcoming memoir. The advance is the largest ever for a Supreme Court justice.
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