Can somebody please explain to me

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8. Most of that line of inquiry is probably imaginary

Is the son of a supreme court justice not supposed to take a high-profile job because many years later someone he works with could become president? Was Trump supposed to be ineligible for the WH because he used to bank with someone who is related to a SC justice? His sister sits on the 3rd circuit court too... would that be disqualifying? What should a SC justice do if a new president once had a business relationship with his son? NOT retire when he's in his 80s because someone might think there was undue influence?

This is really all stages-of-grief nonsense. It's highly unlikely that anyone influenced Kennedy's decision. If they had such influence, he would have stepped aside a year ago. Suddenly we're supposed to believe that an octogenarian Republican justice actually WANTED to hang around until a Democrat could replace him but was "influenced" to do otherwise?