The Supreme Court threw out the convictions of two people involved in New Jersey’s “Bridgegate” scandal, according to a report in the Associated Press.

The court said in a unanimous decision Thursday that the government “had overreached in prosecuting Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni for their roles in creating a massive traffic jam to punish a New Jersey mayor who refused to endorse the reelection of then-Republican Gov. Chris Christie.”

InsiderNJ columnist Fred Snowflack called the outcome in January:

I know, it’s hazardous to predict how the U.S. Supreme Court is going to rule after hearing the arguments, but when it comes to Bridgegate, I’m going to make an exception.

The convictions of Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly are going to be overturned.

I say that based on the law, and how it was enunciated and interpreted by the justices during Tuesday’s hour-long hearing.

It’s hard to separate the overriding legal principle from the tawdry act itself – closing two local lanes of the George Washington Bridge for political purposes, thereby causing massive, week-long traffic jams in Fort Lee. But let’s try.

Read today’s (FULL!) breaking story here.

Also, from a second NBC report:

Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the unanimous court that the two aides, Bridget Anne Kelly and William Baroni, “could not have violated the federal-program fraud or wire fraud laws” because the scheme did not “aim to obtain money or property.”

Kelly was Christie’s Deputy Chief of Staff and Baroni was Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The scandal has been seen as a death blow to the political career of Christie, who had hoped to leverage his second term as governor into a successful run for the Republican presidential nomination.