Haha it’s funny you say that about Thomas. Here’s what happened to Chase:
So, Samuel Chase was appointed to the SCOTUS by George Washington, Chase himself was one of our Founding Fathers. This power that the SCOTUS has to decide what is constitutional and what isn’t, isn’t a power given to them by the Constitution. They basically gave it to themselves in a famous case called
Marbury v Madison (the “Madison” in that case is James Madison, the author of the Constitution). That power is called judicial review.
So by 1805, Thomas Jefferson was Pres. And he was appalled at this idea of judicial review by SCOTUS, and thought they were seizing wayyyy more power than was ever intended—any of this sounding familiar lol? He thought that Chase’s decisions in the bench showed a clear political bias—much like our justices today—and Jefferson thought that was reason enough for impeachment.
In the end, Chase was acquitted, and a precedent was set early on that judiciary is independent, and you can’t go around impeaching and removing justices because you think they are politically biased or don’t agree with their decisions.
Personally, I think there are some very legitimate reasons to impeach Clarence Thomas, but that’s a story for another post