New Jersey Sports Betting Going To Supreme CourtGovernor Hopes High Court Will Rule On Matter |
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has exhausted his options in a federal appeals court and thus will take the state’s sports betting case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The appeals court said on Friday that it wouldn’t rehear the case, the Washington Post reported.
Christie wants his state’s 12 casinos to be able to offer betting on a variety of sporting events, like what Nevada currently does.
Atlantic City, home to all of the Garden State’s full-scale casinos, has for years been seeing its revenue from gamblers dwindle. The state is no longer the second most lucrative gambling jurisdiction in the U.S., as Pennsylvania not long ago leapfrogged it.
Also in an effort to increase casino revenue in his state, Christie earlier this year authorized online gambling. The state’s trial period for those games began today.
Back to sports betting.
Christie signed a bill in 2012 to authorize, a move which prompted a lawsuit from the major sports leagues and the NCAA. They really don’t want New Jersey to allow it.
People with the leagues say that legalization of such gambling could hurt the integrity of the games, while Christie has argued that legalization would help control and thwart the sports betting black market. In other words, he says prohibition is illogical.
In any case, Christie will be challenging whether a decades-old law preventing his state from venturing into the sports betting arena is constitutional.
“Gov. Christie has said all along this issue should be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, and that’s what he hopes will happen next,” Colin Reed, a Christie spokesman, told the Post. “He has asked the attorneys representing the state to file the necessary paperwork. The people of New Jersey voted overwhelmingly to bring sports betting to New Jersey, and the Governor agrees with his constituents and will not give up this fight.”
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