North Jersey – State Sen. Ray Lesniak, D-Union, on Monday announced at the East Coast Gaming Conference in Atlantic City that he is preparing a bill to allow for private operation of sports betting at the state’s racetracks and casinos – threatening to call the bluff of the federal government regarding sports betting, .
Lesniak spearheaded legalization of online gaming in the state as well as its challenge of a federal law now negating the state’s sports betting law. He said he will move forward on the bill in the Legislature should the U.S. Supreme Court decline to hear the state’s case next month.
“Right now, book your hotel room [in Atlantic City]] for the Super Bowl next year and the NCAA Final Four, because you won’t be able to get one,” Lesniak declared. “We are going to have sports betting in New Jersey next year. Go to the bank on it, because if the [Supreme Court takes the case], it will be overturned.
“And if it isn’t, it’s the position of the Justice Department in their briefs that they are not stopping states,” but telling those states they’re free to stop preventing such betting without officially sponsoring it, he added. “I have legislation being drafted, and that will be introduced, to allow casinos and racetracks to have sports betting on our premises. We just won’t be able to regulate it. We pushed the envelope with internet gaming, and we will push the envelope on sports betting. And we are not going to be deterred.”
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending the legality of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) that bars state-sponsored betting in all but four states. Last week it reiterated its contention that the law is not unconstitutional because it merely prevents the sort of state-sponsored sports betting that New Jersey’s current state law is meant to offer.
The federal government and the NCAA, the NFL, and three other professional sports leagues last year prevailed at the U.S. District Court and Third Circuit Court of Appeals levels. That has led Governor Christie to make a final appeal for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case — a decision that likely would be made next month.
State Sen. Ray Lesniak, D-Union, on Monday announced at the East Coast Gaming Conference in Atlantic City that he is preparing a bill to allow for private operation of sports betting at the state’s racetracks and casinos – threatening to call the bluff of the federal government regarding sports betting, .
Lesniak spearheaded legalization of online gaming in the state as well as its challenge of a federal law now negating the state’s sports betting law. He said he will move forward on the bill in the Legislature should the U.S. Supreme Court decline to hear the state’s case next month.
“Right now, book your hotel room [in Atlantic City]] for the Super Bowl next year and the NCAA Final Four, because you won’t be able to get one,” Lesniak declared. “We are going to have sports betting in New Jersey next year. Go to the bank on it, because if the [Supreme Court takes the case], it will be overturned.
“And if it isn’t, it’s the position of the Justice Department in their briefs that they are not stopping states,” but telling those states they’re free to stop preventing such betting without officially sponsoring it, he added. “I have legislation being drafted, and that will be introduced, to allow casinos and racetracks to have sports betting on our premises. We just won’t be able to regulate it. We pushed the envelope with internet gaming, and we will push the envelope on sports betting. And we are not going to be deterred.”
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending the legality of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) that bars state-sponsored betting in all but four states. Last week it reiterated its contention that the law is not unconstitutional because it merely prevents the sort of state-sponsored sports betting that New Jersey’s current state law is meant to offer.
The federal government and the NCAA, the NFL, and three other professional sports leagues last year prevailed at the U.S. District Court and Third Circuit Court of Appeals levels. That has led Governor Christie to make a final appeal for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case — a decision that likely would be made next month.
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State Sen. Ray Lesniak, D-Union, on Monday announced at the East Coast Gaming Conference in Atlantic City that he is preparing a bill to allow for private operation of sports betting at the state’s racetracks and casinos – threatening to call the bluff of the federal government regarding sports betting, .
Lesniak spearheaded legalization of online gaming in the state as well as its challenge of a federal law now negating the state’s sports betting law. He said he will move forward on the bill in the Legislature should the U.S. Supreme Court decline to hear the state’s case next month.
“Right now, book your hotel room [in Atlantic City]] for the Super Bowl next year and the NCAA Final Four, because you won’t be able to get one,” Lesniak declared. “We are going to have sports betting in New Jersey next year. Go to the bank on it, because if the [Supreme Court takes the case], it will be overturned.
“And if it isn’t, it’s the position of the Justice Department in their briefs that they are not stopping states,” but telling those states they’re free to stop preventing such betting without officially sponsoring it, he added. “I have legislation being drafted, and that will be introduced, to allow casinos and racetracks to have sports betting on our premises. We just won’t be able to regulate it. We pushed the envelope with internet gaming, and we will push the envelope on sports betting. And we are not going to be deterred.”
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending the legality of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) that bars state-sponsored betting in all but four states. Last week it reiterated its contention that the law is not unconstitutional because it merely prevents the sort of state-sponsored sports betting that New Jersey’s current state law is meant to offer.
The federal government and the NCAA, the NFL, and three other professional sports leagues last year prevailed at the U.S. District Court and Third Circuit Court of Appeals levels. That has led Governor Christie to make a final appeal for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case — a decision that likely would be made next month.
– See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/news/nj-sen-lesniak-to-craft-sports-betting-bill-for-racetracks-casinos-1.1019252#sthash.kM9YcZfN.dpuf
