Sheldon Adelson’s lobbying entity, the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, has crawled back from the sewer. It seems that the Justice Department fight in the Wire Act case with New Hampshire has given them some confidence. Just a few days later, CSIG joined the DOJ’s case with another voluminous amicus filing.

Neither the DOJ nor CSIG have offered anything new this time around, instead opting for an expansion of the tired and adjudged incorrect legal arguments that were refuted in earlier rulings. The latest CSIG amicus brief incorporates large chunks of its May 2019 brief verbatim, including many of the specious sound bites favored by Adelson and CSiG officials.

The CSIG Chief Dipstick Jon C. Bruning has testified before a US House subcommittee in 2018 when he said that, “technological advances, and the ease of access to the Internet by children, makes the challenges imposed on states where Internet gambling is illegal even greater today,” and “states simply do not have the legal authority or the resources to protect our citizens, including children” from illegal online casinos.”

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