Federal appeals judges reported earning more than 
$5.4 million in outside income in 2013, according to a review of their financial disclosures by sibling publication The National Law Journal.

Roughly half of that money came from judges’ retirement savings from their previous jobs, another $2.1 million was for law school teaching, and almost all of the rest, about $250,000, came from publishing royalties. Some judges cited less conventional types of income as well.