Justices’ financial disclosures reveal Bad Bunny concert tickets, plenty of travel in 2025

Briefly Analysis
Justice Sonia Sotomayor received concert tickets valued at more than $4,000 from the record company that represents the Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny, while Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received a painting for her chambers valued at $2,500. Those gifts, along with other details about the justices’ book deals, travel, and teaching gigs, were made public in the justices’ annual financial disclosures, which were released on Monday.The disclosures are relatively opaque and are intended to provide information about potential conflicts of interest and the justices’ compliance with ethical standards, rather than snapshots of the justices’ wealth.The financial disclosure forms for eight of the nine justices became available at noon EDT on Monday. The forms were due on May 15, but federal judges and justices can receive extensions of up to 90 days to submit their forms. Forms for Justice Samuel Alito, who received an extension last year, are not yet available online.Sotomayor and Jackson were the only justices to report gifts. Sotomayor indicated that she had received $4,333 worth of tickets from Rimas Entertainment, which “provided tickets for a concert for me and guests while I was on a private trip to Puerto Rico in August 2025.” Sotomayor did not specifically identify the artist who performed at the concert, but Bad Bunny played 31 sold-out shows in San Juan between July and September 2025. And a September 2025 story on the announcement that Bad Bunny would headline the halfti
