Imagine the events are this: U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. writes a confidential memo dated Feb. 22, 2024, to his eight colleagues, explaining, in part, how he proposes that the court address the critical case that will impact the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump. The memo itself, or at least its contents, are improperly disclosed to New York Times journalists. Beyond that, more than one person, it is suggested, discloses to the Times internal communications among the justices regarding how the court should address the authorship of and approach to the decision that will invariably enhance Trump's candidacy (and even possible freedom). Whatever happened, whoever was at fault, the ethics of confidentiality at the Supreme Court have, for the moment, gone out the window.