In May 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may pass laws allowing sports betting. The ruling overturned the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act which was a federal law that banned states from “sponsoring, operating, advertising, promoting, licensing or authorizing” sports gambling. The 1992 law exempted Nevada, Oregon, Delaware and Montana which had sports betting systems or lotteries already in place. The suit brought before the Supreme Court was brought by New Jersey and supported by a group of 18 other states. In order to legalize gambling each stat…
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25% No |
68% Yes |
23% No |
5% Yes, but let each state decide |
1% No, this would compromise the integrity of sports |
2% Yes, as long as there are restrictions on how much money people can bet |
1% No, and I support a nationwide ban on any form of gambling |
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It is not the right of the government to infringe on the rights of others, and this includes in the case of gambling.
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