It’s the long-shot of long-shots, but former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years on 19 corruption convictions, although an appellate court this summer overturned five of those and ordered him resentenced. Among the convictions: scheming to sell or trade President Barack Obama’s former U.S. Senate seat.

His attorneys asked if resentencing could be delayed while they appealed to the Supreme Court; that was denied.

The Supreme Court hears roughly 80 cases a year out of more than 10,000 requests – it’s unclear if Blagojevich’s case rises to that level, but it could be argued this case raises questions about where to draw the line between legal and illegal trading of political favors.

In other State news, it’s tough enough to get a box of Sudafed, and Illinois retailers say there’s no need to make it tougher.

The active ingredient in the popular cold medicine can be used to make methamphetamine, thus the rigamarole of showing your driver’s license, signing a form, etc. While there’s been a drive in past years to make Sudafed and its generic equivalents available by prescription only, the new argument is that Mexico is a bigger supply of meth than, say, a local chemistry teacher gone bad.

Rob Karr, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association said they already have restrictions in place and adds those restrictions are working against labs.

Alex Brill, former chief economist for the US House of Representatives, says making Sudafed prescription-only will cause two adverse consequences, including causing people not to take the product and in order to get the prescription, they have to go through a doctor, insurance and get to the pharmacy to get it when before, it was just one step to purchase the drug, which Brill says works very well.