“Having already delivered him a reprieve from reporting to prison, the Supreme Court announced that it would decide whether former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell (R) was rightly convicted of corruption for his efforts on behalf of a businessman who bestowed money and gifts on the governor and his family,” the Washington Post reports.

“McDonnell’s lawyers had told the court that if his ‘routine political courtesies’ to Richmond businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr. could be construed as felonies, it would make vulnerable all politicians and arm federal prosecutors ‘with a frightening degree of control over the political process.'”