Ok, but do those people have cases before the Supreme Court?
If you are suggesting that, the friends of the people who Thomas is friends with may have business dealings with an acquaintance of a friend of someone who has a company..etc..if you want to go down the line of thought that somewhere down the line a friend of a friends may one day have a court case before the scotus that affects business dealings…then justices wouldn’t ever be able to have friends..
If THESE people have cases before the scotus, or if they ever do, then i could support him refusing himself from their case
The argument you are making is the same argument we could use for every member of the legislative branch. All those members of the senate and congress who are friends with people who own businesses…or who themselves are business owners, and they pass laws every day that have an affect on those businesses.
Should we ask members of congress to recuse themselves from voting on any bill that would affect someone’s business?