There is a lack of hard evidence exactly because the Junior Justice hasn't been on the SCotUS all that long. People used to believe that Justice Thomas was just a rubber stamp for Scalia; that lie hasn't been spread much since Thomas's scathing rejection of the decision that went against California's medical marijuana law.

There will come a time when the difference between an unsupportable ideolog's rant and a technocrat's hair-splitting becomes critical at the functional output level. I will indeed wait for you to put on your fencing mask when that day comes.