In your heart of hearts, do you think Thomas would have voted any differently if he hadn't taken those vacations? Come on now, be honest.
What about Sotomayor, not recusing herself when a suit involving her book publisher (she rec'd at least $3.6 million from them) was reviewed by the court? Nobody cares about that! I read that Gorsuch also falls into the same category, with the same publisher.
And the Notorious RBG, took 14 trips on someone else's dime in 2018. Nobody cares about that!
I doubt any vote has been changed by those trips, payments, etc., regardless of which side of the aisle the justice is perceived to be sitting.
The left just hates it when the court doesn't march to liberal groupthink, like all the other lemming democrats.