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This morning, the Supreme Court released its long-awaited decision in Murphy v. NCAA, New Jersey's constitutional challenge to a federal law that forbids the state from amending its own sports gambling laws. The opinion by Justice Alito did not disappoint. Here's the key paragraph: The PASPA provision at issue here—prohibiting state authorizati ...

The Competitive Enterprise Institute's Michelle Minton has a new paper highlighting the importance of the Supreme Court ruling the right way in New Jersey's challenge to the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. As Michelle explains, and PLF, CEI, Cato, and WILL explained in our amicus brief in the case, PASPA has been a failure. From Mic ...

Can Congress dictate to states what their own laws must be? Anyone familiar with federalism will likely immediately say "no." Our Founders drafted a Constitution that preserved the independence of the the states, believing that dividing power between the federal government and the states would be a bulwark to protect our liberty. To preserve the Fo ...

caption id="attachment_43624" align="alignright" width="247" By Eric R from Scranton, PA/caption This morning, the Supreme Court decided to review New Jersey's constitutional challenge to a federal law that purports to forbid almost every state---except, notably, Nevada---from legalizing sports gambling. PLF, joined by Cato and CEI, filed an amicu ...

States are not puppets of the federal government, to be manipulated to accomplish whatever policy the federal government might prefer. If they were, both individual liberty and political accountability would be compromised. That's why our Constitution forbids the feds from requiring states to govern according to federal instructions. caption id="a ...

This week, I participated in a Federalist Society teleconference call on the Third Circuit's recent en banc arguments over New Jersey's efforts to repeal its prohibitions against sports gambling. That call has since been released as a podcast and is available here. As you may recall, PLF (along with the Cato Institute) filed an amicus brief aski ...