Supreme Court Justices Skeptical of Prosecution in NJ ‘Bridgegate’ Case

An exit sign for Fort Lee, N.J., is viewed as cars travel across the George Washington Bridge into New Jersey in Fort Lee, N.J., on Sept. 7, 2016. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to uphold the convictions of the two former New Jersey political operatives who orchestrated the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal—the “Bridgegate” traffic-congestion scandal of 2013—but the justices didn’t seem to have been moved.

Justices wondered why the prosecution had been brought, in what they indicated was a confusing case in which no money or property was traded for political favors.