If I were attributing bad faith to Thomas - and given that he ignores court norms on recusing himself, that doesn't seem like too much of a stretch - I would be

If I were attributing bad faith to Thomas - and given that he ignores court norms on recusing himself, that doesn't seem like too much of a stretch - I would be more likely to ascribe to him a desire to see "liberal Silicon Valley" punished than anything else. Thomas is an incredibly political beast, to the point that Scalia wrote him off as an unprincipled nutjob.