I say that because they clearly don’t give a shit, or they’d avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

If they can’t even be bothered to not do obvious stuff with conflict of interest/money/cases before them, why would they be putting in any actual work? Especially the ones who are there for prestige alone, their clerks are doing their reading and writing for them.

Alito and Thomas in particular have said things recently and historically that indicate they’re just phoning it in.