Worst court in the world has just made sports Gambling legal across the country

[Th3G3ntleman]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/su...-allows-sports-betting-across-country-n868956

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court acted Monday to bust Nevada's monopoly on legal sports betting, allowing more states to get in on the action and reap the tax benefits.

The court struck down a federal law that required states to ban gambling on the outcome of sporting events. The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act was highly unusual: it did not ban sports gambling nationwide as a matter of federal law, but it said the states were not allowed to permit it.



Nevada was grandfathered in when the law was passed in 1992.

New Jersey and then-Gov. Chris Christie challenged the law, arguing that it violated the Tenth Amendment, which the Supreme Court has said prohibits federal laws that compel states to carry out federal dictates. The gambling law, Christie said, commandeered the states by forcing them to prohibit sports wagering.

New Jersey wants to allow limited forms of sports gambling and to collect the taxes from it. While supporters of the law said it discouraged betting and the resulting corrupting influence of organized crime on athletics, Christie said Americans already spend nearly $150 billion a year on illegal sports wagering.

"I know that we don't know much about organized crime coming from New Jersey. But we know a little bit. And the fact is that organized crime is involved in profiting from this every day," he said.


The American Gaming Association estimated that Americans would wager $10 billion on this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament alone, with just three percent of the bets placed legally through Nevada. "Our current sports betting laws are so out of touch with reality that we're turning tens of millions of Americans into criminals for the simple act of enjoying college basketball," said Geoff Freeman, the gaming association's CEO.

The NCAA and the major professional sports leagues contended that the law was not unconstitutional, because it didn't compel states to do anything, it simply prevented them from making sports betting legal by either operating sports-gambling schemes themselves or authorizing casinos to do so.

New Jersey officials said they would allow only certain types of sports betting, at casinos and racetracks, with a minimum age of 21 to participate. When the case was argued in January, Christie said the state was prepared to act within two weeks of a Supreme Court ruling in its favor.

The current governor, Phil Murphy, said in late April that the state is ready to act "sooner than later." Nearly half the states are prepared to launch similar efforts if New Jersey won in the Supreme Court

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Game changer

 

[DoubleClutch]

Wow. So I can bet on the Warriors now?

 

[Ian Ahbaa f/ Area51]

LET US FEAST

bust seriously what’s the downside to regular everyday brehs who follow sports religiously? all i see is a easy come up

 

[Archangel]

The sports world will never be the same

 

[bear27]

Wow. So I can bet on the Warriors now?

Yeah but if you lose you don't have to pay up.....ain't that right @FireDwaneCasey

 

[lightskin jermaine]

Lets get this money

 

[Lakerman0834]

Fukkery is inevitable

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Professional sports Refs about to get their Tim Donahue on

 

[Swagnificent]

Finally the Supreme Court does something right.

I think all laws that try to control human behavior that does not harm others should be overturned.

 

[Derek Lee]

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Oh and who were the 2 justices that voted against it?

 

[RubioTheCruel]

It was only a matter of time. There were hundreds of billions of dollars every year being wagered on sports gambling illegally. Uncle Sam wasn't collecting taxes on any of it. He wants his cut.

 

[Rev]

Supreme Court strikes down sports betting law

The Supreme Court struck down a federal law prohibiting sports gambling Monday, giving the states a go-ahead to allow betting on sports.

In 2012, the NCAA and four major professional sports leagues sued New Jersey governor Chris Christie after he signed legislation allowing sports betting in the state. That law directly flew in the face of the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), which makes it unlawful for a state to "sponsor, operate, advertise, promote, license, or authorize by law" sports wagering.

A handful of states that already had forms of sports betting when PASPA was implemented were grandfathered in, with only Nevada allowed to offer a full menu, including single-game wagering.

New Jersey lost every step of the way, and the Supreme Court initially declined to take the case in June 2014. The state didn't give up, though, and passed another law that attempted to comply with PASPA.

The case made its way through the court system again before the Supreme Court took the case and heard oral arguments last December. Twenty states signed on in support of New Jersey in the case.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

I pass my real estate class exam, get home early and see this... wattba