Commandeering Issues?<\/strong><\/h2>\nHatch was one of the authors of PASPA, the 1992 federal bill that prohibited state-sanctioned sports betting which was overturned by the US Supreme Court last May, paving the way for state-by-state regulation.<\/p>\n
The Utah Republican has said state regulation will allow sports betting to \u201cproliferate amid uneven enforcement\u201d and called it \u201ca patchwork race to the regulatory bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n
But most states and operators argue that federal oversight is unnecessary — and there could be further constitutional issues. Marc Edelman, a law professor at Baruch College in New York, tweeted on Tuesday that, although he had not read the language of the bill, \u201cgiving the federal government power to approve or disapprove states\u2019 sports gambling laws could give rise to the exact same commandeering problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bill also fails to address whether the eight states that have already regulated sports betting would be forced to subject to Hatch\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A draft of Senator Orin Hatch\u2019s (R-Utah) threatened federal sports betting bill appeared on Capitol Hill Tuesday. The bill seeks to provide a uniform federal framework of sports betting regulation and would require states seeking to legalize sports gambling operations to have their rules signed off by the US Attorney General\u2019 office. The AG would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":93873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,61,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Orrin Hatch's Federal Sports Betting Bill Surfaces in Congress<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n