How? With a free vacation? The Supreme Court was set up to make it nearly impossible to pressure a justice into doing anything.
Well, I guess the pressure would have to come from Roberts so there goes that idea.
At best, Roberts can deprive Thomas of the privilege (or burden) of writing majority opinions. That’s about it.
For a justice who went ten years without asking a question I doubt he cares at all. He gets his vote and collects his paycheck. It seems he has little regard for the institution.
Plus a few perks here and there.
The only recourse against Thomas is the same one that befell Scalia: age and gluttony.
Thomas is 75 and overweight (perhaps obese). It is entirely likely that the he will die within the next 10 years.
ETA: Alito is 73. The balance of power in the court could shift within the decade.
Scalia died at 79.
Problem is, we need him to die in the next 13 months.
If the Democrats ever regain the House, they should impeach him. With long, detailed hearings covering every single benefit he received from his close personal friends, and calling all of those generous friends to testify.
Thomas isn’t that heavy, and i believe he gets excellent medical care. I expect him to be with us for a while.
My understanding (from another justice’s clerk) some time back he was an avid power lifter and a bull on the b-ball court. So he might not be terribly unfit.
And Anthony Kennedy showed that conservative Justices know the score better than (for example) Ruth Bader Ginsburg did - they need to leave at the right time when their replacements can get approved by the right people.
Thomas knows his only chance to retire from the Court is to have a Republican presidency - otherwise, in obeisance to the conservative legal movement, he only gets to leave feet first.
Slate has an analysis article about the latest Thomas revelations. It talks about how Thomas has shifted his position on Chevron deference - IANAL, but it seems to be a doctrine that judges should defer broadly to the bureaucracy on regulations it issues according to laws passed by Congress. This would seem to undercut one of Thomas’s defenders’ go-to arguments - that his opinions are fixed and no amount of interaction with others or pecuniary gain would change that.
The article is:
(There is a paywall).
Any Dopers with legal background care to talk about Thomas’s views on Chevron deference and their evolution over time?
I guess Clarence’s dishonesty is so well established that additional examples barely merit any attention, but the fucker didn’t even pay for his quarter million $ land yacht.
I read another version of the article earlier. A point made (for anyone not reading the articles) is that loan forgiveness is TAXABLE income, which was not reported.
I would say that in light of this error, and other reported income errors, it’s time for the IRS to go over the last 20 years of his records with a fine toothed comb. Not for retribution (although he’ll claim it) but due to a pattern of such… mistakes.
Reminder, this corrupt tax cheat also voted against student loan forgiveness.
And it’s really kind of the fault of everyone else that it’s needed. If we hadn’t misunderstood these innocent deeds, it never would have been necessary to have a code of ethics.
Spineless assholes.
ISTM they already had a code of ethics which they have willfully ignored. This will be no better.
To the tune of “Teach Your Children” (by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young)
You, who are on the court
Doing graft for sport just so you get by
And so debase yourself
Because the cash means lots you can buy
Screw your country well
Put the poor through hell, laugh while they cry
Leave them with no dreams
Let them be sick, no hope to live by
There’s still so much to buy
If they paid you, be their guy
So just look them in the eye
And know they own you
(waves light) 
Cite that Thomas made any errors or mistakes in his tax returns? The evidence suggests that he reported exactly what he intended to.