 Richard Painter, thank you very much indeed, law professor at the University of Minnesota and former chief ethics lawyer at the White House. Well, while Mr. Trump was celebrating the decision of the Supreme Court, his close ally and former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was reporting to prison to begin a four-month sentence for defying a congregational subpoena. Mr. Bannon described himself as a political prisoner as he arrived at the law security federal prison.