The timing is just funky. But maybe the NYT pushed their story out faster since he retired.

Less here than meets the eye, probably, but the Anthony Kennedy I thought I knew wouldn’t have let so smelly a situation develop. Historians will have a field day unearthing the details of this messy situation… https://t.co/mCm8vIptiX

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 29, 2018