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Sports Betting, Federalism And The Constitution, John M. Greabe
Sports Betting, Federalism And The Constitution, John M. Greabe
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[Excerpt] Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has described federalism - how the Constitution divides powers between the federal government and the states - as "perhaps our oldest question of constitutional law."
This past week, the United States Supreme Court returned to this oldest of constitutional questions to strike down a federal law that had prohibited stats from authorizing betting on competitive sporting events.