Sports gambling legalized

So Congress can regulate gambling, but it can't forbid it altogether, right? So, I'm guessing this is a matter of the extent of the regulations. Kind of like abortion, in which Planned Parenthood v. Casey says the states can impose restrictions on abortion as long as they are not overly burdensome?
(And, no, I'm not trying to equate gambling and abortion. Just asking if the legal principles are similar.)

 

Makes some degree of sense for him to oppose it since he's from Utah and anti-gambling laws are apparently hard-wired into the state constitution.
Makes no sense coming from someone that's supposed to be the party of states' rights, since the entire premise of the Supreme Court decision was that this is a states' rights issue.

 

I can't wait to go to my local casino and place a wager on The Big Game.

I'd guess a lot of the bet sheets list it as "Professional football" and use cities instead of team names.

 

Not quite. The Constitutional principle at issue was the relationship between the federal and state governments, not freedom to gamble. Congress is free to ban gambling, or regulate it, or do nothing and leave it entirely to the states—but what it can’t do is tell state legislatures how to handle it. In enacting the federal law that prohibited state governments from authorizing sports gaming (except for those grandfathered in), Congress had inappropriate “commandeered” state officials.

The abortion cases, on the other hand, concern individual rights and so constrain all governments. Neither the federal nor state governments can ban it.

 

Just in the dark ages when it comes to gambling?

 

Hah. I wish.

 

There is only one question that matters and I have not seen anything coming close to an answer:
Are we still going to be paying a $0.10 vig?

 

There will probably less of that once it's legal most places. All the point shaving scandals that have actually been discovered in relatively recent memory were caught because Vegas noticed something was fishy.

 

One of the stories I read this afternoon noted that a lot of states will probably look to Vegas to establish industry standards -- including monitoring lines and action on games -- so you might be right in that this could actually tighten up that sort of thing up. Seems like if you wanted to fix a game, there are already plenty of outlets to place bets and do so. As long as the same industry standards and general regulations are in place nationwide it shouldn't be any worse than it's been in the past, even with more places to place bets.

 

Gonna have a problem with those New York and Los Angeles teams. "Los Angeles Team That Plays in Soccer Stadium" may not fit on the card.

 

WV casinos had agreed to buy their pro sports information, which they have to have, from the leagues - as opposed to from a third party.
I don't remember what that info (prolly Injury reports and such) is amd I am too lazy to look it up right now. But this is how the leagues are to get some compensation.

 

You can only write off gambling losses up to your winnings, but I thankfully don’t have to worry about that any more with the recent tax withholding changes for horse racing. One year I had 46 goddamn W2s.