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Scotus's 2017-2018 Term: More Of The 'Passive Virtues', John M. Greabe
Scotus's 2017-2018 Term: More Of The 'Passive Virtues', John M. Greabe
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[exerpt] "Examine a timelier topic: the court's decision to effectively punt on the major religious freedom and partisan gerrymandering cases it was poised to decide this term. For the court's restrain in these cases may have some relation to our turbulent political times."
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.