They want us off guard when they lower the boom. It's to put a smile on your face before they wipe it off permanently with their decision on immunity or the Chevron doctrine.
It's just a dopamine bribe to stop you from thinking about actual bribes
Which is actually in line with their previous ruling since this was payment received afterwards. Very cool.
Fwiw, assuming the opinion is real, this is a very different type of leak - it was prematurely published on the website. This would likely be an error by the IT folks and dissimilar from the Dobbs draft being given to reporters.