The politically motivated lane realignment scheme on the George Washington Bridge, planned for the purpose of generating gridlock in the town of Fort Lee, was not sufficient grounds to convict them of defrauding the government, Bridgegate defendants Bridget Anne Kelly and William Baroni Jr. argued in briefs filed Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Kelly and Baroni are asking the justices to reject the theory of their 2016 convictions, which is that they committed fraud by realigning access lanes to the bridge to extract political retribution on Fort Lee’s mayor for failing to endorse Gov. Chris Christie’s reelection campaign, while falsely claiming that the changes were made under the auspices of a traffic study.

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