this afternoon while listening to msnbc from Ari through Chris Hayes...and I had the same thought. I dismissed it because it sounded crazy even to me...but...

(Interesting Politico article from last year)

Trump’s hidden back channel to Justice Kennedy: Their kids.
After Donald Trump wrapped up his first speech to Congress and worked his way through the crowd, he lingered on his handshake with Anthony Kennedy, the 80-year-old Supreme Court justice.

The boom mics picked up their seemingly private conversation. “Say hello to your boy,” Trump said, “Special guy.” “Your kids have been very nice to him,” Kennedy replied. “Well,” Trump said, “they love him, and they love him in New York.”

While the White House is focused this week on shepherding Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, through the Senate confirmation process, the president and his team are obsessed with the next possible vacancy.
The likeliest candidate is Kennedy, who has sat at the decisive fulcrum of the most important Supreme Court cases for more than a decade. Replacing him with a reliable conservative would tip the court to the right, even if no other seat comes open under Trump — whose team has taken to exploring every imaginable line of communication to keep tabs on the justice and to make him comfortable as he ponders a potential retirement.

One back channel is the fact that Kennedy’s son, Justin, knows Donald Trump Jr. through New York real estate circles. Another is through Kennedy’s other son, Gregory, and Trump’s Silicon Valley adviser Peter Thiel. They went to Stanford Law School together and served as president of the Federalist Society in back-to-back years, according to school records. More recently, Kennedy’s firm, Disruptive Technology Advisers, has worked with Thiel’s company Palantir Technologies. In fact, during the early months of the Trump administration, Gregory Kennedy has worked at NASA as a senior financial adviser as part of the so-called “beachhead” team. Both Kennedy boys were spotted at the White House last month for the administration’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration (Justice Kennedy is Irish Catholic). In February, Ivanka Trump attended oral arguments of the Supreme Court with her daughter. She was a guest of Justice Kennedy.


https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-supreme-court-236925

I sure missed it. Thanks.

If they did WHAT the hell can be done about it???

It's just another log on the dumpster fire.
Who knows what kind of collusion there
is between Trump and Kennedy.
But I do know that I'll be marching
this weekend to save the children
that Trump is caging.... with more
vigor than ever.

came about, and that means that we have to dig into Mueller's investigation to make sure no one buries information on the kids.

I don't put anything past trump.

for over a year.

He's 81. It's hardly unusual for him to retire.

Too much tin foil here.

It is interesting that Kennedy decided to announce his retirement in the middle of a week in which Trump was being criticized for his handling of the family separations situation.

and one advisor of Trump's. Seems Kennedy's grown kids have had business interactions w/the Kushners, and another son is doing business with a CA advisor of Trump's.

I think he got word to Kennedy that it would be a good thing if he retired now rather than later.

I also think that Trump plans to sue over Mueller's findings, or defend a criminal charge, and if so, it would go to the S.Ct. It's possible that Kennedy would have to recuse himself because of his connections w/the Trump family. So this takes care of that. Inserted in Kennedy's place will be a loyal Trump donor.

Now we know why Trump repeatedly said, "If I had known that Sessions was going to recuse himself, I would have named someone else." He repeated it often. I thought it was strange, because how could Sessions have known that Congress would find out,and make a deal out of, him have interactions w/the Russians? Sessions didn't know beforehand that he would have to recuse himself.

This was arranged, IMO. No doubt about it. Kennedy & Trump are friendly with each other.

He will be pleased.