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Once again showing a crud-encrusted facet of republican family values (their real values, not the FAKE ones they preach about), the republican SupremOs have now made GAMBLING the republican family-values LAW OF THE LAND.
With KGOP 'gawdd-emperor' Comrade Casino (republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief) in charge, a republican crapshoot was inevitable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/politics/supreme-court-sports-betting-new-jersey.html
brooklynite
(93,873 posts)Plenty of things to be upset about; this isn't one of them.
FWIW - Kagan and Breyer concurred.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Girard442
(6,059 posts)Much more at the link. Of course this is pre-Trump. Probably the later resolutions laud casino gambling and multiple marriages to supermodels.
http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/564/resolution-on-gambling
safeinOhio
(32,531 posts)Some poor people in this country do not want the rich to pay their fair share of taxes because they are certain they will hit the winning number some day.
brooklynite
(93,873 posts)Just about every social Democracy in Europe that folks claim to admire have sports gambling.
safeinOhio
(32,531 posts)no problem with gambling, as soon as we have medical care for everyone, rich people paying their share of taxes and spending what they do on education and the military.
Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The Supreme Court did not somehow legalize sports gambling. They struck down a federal law which allowed some states to legalize it, but not others. Whether states decide to do so is up to them.
What would be your take on a federal law which allowed some states to legalize marijuana, but not other states?
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)favor of breaking an illegal hold over the sports betting industry
more important issues to get excited about
I am glad for this ruling as it should be in the state's hands