Justice Samuel Alito reported travel to the United Kingdom, Italy, and Arizona in 2025, as well as $33,333 in income from the publication of a book. The news came as part of Alito’s annual , which was filed on Aug. 11 and released on Monday morning.
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Alito was the last justice to file his disclosure. His eight colleagues filed their forms by the May 15 deadline; the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, which provides support to the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, then published the forms in late June. Alito, however, received a 90-day extension of time in which to submit his form.
The disclosures are relatively opaque and are intended to provide information about possible conflicts of interest and the justices’ compliance with ethical standards, rather than snapshots of the justices’ wealth.
Alito reported $33,333 in income from the Hachette Book Group. Basic Liberty, which is an imprint of Hachette, is listed as the publisher of Alito’s forthcoming book, “So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country,” which is scheduled for release on Oct. 6. Basic Liberty’s website describes the imprint as “dedicated to publishing serious works of cultural, social, and political analysis by conservative writers who meet the same high standards of original and penetrating thought for which Basic Books” – another Hachette imprint – “is famous.”
The $33,333 figure is significantly less than the book income reported earlier this year by some of Alito’s colleagues. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson disclosed that she received more than $1 million for her memoir, “Lovely One,” in 2025, the highest sum for any justice. Other justices receiving income from their books included Justices Amy Coney Barrett (nearly $850,000); Neil Gorsuch (just over $300,000); and Sonia Sotomayor (approximately $88,000).
Alito reported three trips related to speaking engagements. In January 2025, he traveled to Scottsdale, Arizona, to speak at a dinner where the Sandra Day O’Connor Prize, an honor established by the late justice’s clerks to honor “her tireless dedication to the rule of law,” was awarded.
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In September 2025, he traveled to Rome to participate in the EU-US Economic Affairs Forum. His food, lodging, and travel for that trip were funded by the Mentor Group, a Boston-based nonprofit that describes its work as “primarily motivated by lack of understanding in the United States about the European Union and by misapprehension in Europe about the origins of the United States political economy.”
And in October 2025, Alito traveled to London and Oxford, England, to participate in a forum on the rule of law. His travel expenses for that trip were covered by the Association of Marshall Scholars and the American College of Trial Lawyers, which (along with the UK Supreme Court) hosted the program.
Alito continued to own stock in chemical companies such as 3M, Abbott Laboratories, and Dow, as well as energy companies such as ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66, and OGE Energy Corp.
Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts are the only justices who own individual stocks. Alito’s investments in oil and gas stocks have recently been under scrutiny. In particular, watchdog groups and progressive groups have argued that because of Alito’s extensive holdings in the energy industry, he should recuse himself from participating in cases involving such companies – including Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, a lawsuit brought by a Colorado county seeking millions of dollars from oil and gas companies for their alleged role in exacerbating climate change. The court will hear oral arguments in the dispute on Oct. 5.
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