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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A small contingent of Congressional members is asking the Department of Justice to overturn a 2011 opinion that allowed states to legalize online gaming within their borders.

Since assuming the position of Attorney General, Jeff Sessions has been bombarded by requests to throw out the 2011 Department of Justice Office Of Legal Counsel opinion that set in motion the state-by-state legalization efforts.

The anti-gambling Sessions seems like the perfect person for the anti-online gambling crowd to woo on this front. During his confirmation hearing Sessions was asked about the OLC opinion by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and said it was a matter he would consider revisiting.

So far, Sessions hasn’t gotten around to online gambling, but that doesn’t mean he won’t. Even if it means getting into a 10th Amendment war with a number of states – something Sessions seems willing to do considering his recent marijuana decree.

Since the opinion, Delaware, Nevada, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania have legalized online gambling.

Six states have also legalized online lottery:

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1. Illinois
2. Georgia
3. Michigan
4. Kentucky
5. New Hampshire
6. Pennsylvania

But that hasn’t stopped the online gaming prohibitionists from trying.

This year’s efforts

A letter from Nebraska Governor Pete Rickets was sent to Sessions in May. Rickets letter was sent in response to a National Governor’s Association (NGA) letter that urged the new AG to leave the issue of online gambling up to the states.

In July, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) wrote to Sessions in support of a federal online gambling ban.

In November, Senators Diane Feinstein (D-CA) and Lindsey Graham sent a similar letter to the DOJ.

In December, four members of the House of Representatives, Daniel Donovan (R-NY), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Tom Garrett (R-VA), and Louie Gohmert (R-TX) followed suit, asking the DOJ to reverse the 2011 opinion.

The problem with all these letters is Sessions recused himself from online gambling matters after he hired an attorney that also works for an anti-online gambling lobby group.

Previous efforts date back over a decade

Previous attempts to ban online gambling go back over a decade.

In 2007, 43 attorneys general sent a letter of opposition to Congress opposing proposed legislation to legalize online gambling.

A new wave of opposition

But the prohibitionists didn’t truly find their voice until 2014, which happened to coincide with Sheldon Adelson’s announcement that he would “spend whatever it takes” to stop online gambling.

Shortly after the announcement, Adelson created the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling and stocked it with well-known politicos as co-chairs who made the flimsy case against online gambling to anyone who would listen.

With Adelson’s support and financing, letters from attorneys general picked back up, but support for a federal prohibition has been severely eroded:

• 2007 letter opposing federal legalization efforts: 86 percent (43 out of 50)
• 2014 letter calling on Congress to prohibit online gambling: 30 percent (15 out of 50 + Guam)
• 2015 letter calling on Congress to prohibit online gambling: 16 percent (eight out of 50)
• 2016 letter calling on Congress to prohibit online gambling: 20 percent (10 out of 50)

In addition to the attorneys general, no less than five governors penned letters supporting a federal prohibition of online gambling in 2014.

The list includes:

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There were also legislative efforts.

From 2014-2017, legislation (the Restoration of America’s Wire Act or RAWA) was introduced seeking to prohibit online gambling at the federal level. The legislation led to several hearings, but support for the bans has been fleeting.

RAWA 2014 was introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) in the House and Sen. Graham in the Senate. The bill gained a little bit of traction during the lame duck session at the end of 2014 but was ultimately scuttled.

RAWA 2015 was more of the same. Same sponsors. Same rhetoric. And the same failure. The bill’s fate was cemented following disastrous (for its backers) March and December hearings in 2015.

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RAWA was never officially reintroduced in 2016, but it made a brief reappearance late in the session before being tossed into the garbage bin.

By 2017, online gaming opponents had fully shifted away from legislative efforts like RAWA, instead focusing on overturning the OLC opinion.

So far they’ve had the same level of success with both strategies.

May 26, 2014

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The different groups and coalitions against the online gambling industry are trying to force the US government to introduce bills to ban this lucrative market in the United States. However, these factions are recently finding more and more obstacles on its way to ban one of the most profitable industries in the world. US players are aware that these are nothing but some of the land-based casino owners from Las Vegas as well as the Native American tribes from California, both, groups that only want to keep the gambling monopoly in the United States the way it has been for the past 50 years. Now it is the turn for the National Governors Associations (NGA) to speak up as Sheldon Adelson's coalition seems to be gaining popularity and, with it, the group is becoming stronger. The National Governors Association, bipartisan organization of national governors, has come out with something to say about the Restoration of America’s Wire Act. The NGA governors are trying to bring to the table their experience on national policy, a tool that could be perfectly used to link up both state and federal governments. The NGA is now an advocate for online poker since last week when the group sent a letter last Friday to Senate Majority and Minority leaders, as well as both speakers of the House John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi. The letter is a statement of the pitiless ambitious of a few political circles within the government of the United States to continue supporting causes like Sheldon Adelson's coalition.

'Dear Majority Leader Reid, Senator McConnell, Speaker Boehner, and Representative Pelosi:

The nation’s governors are concerned with legislation introduced in Congress that would ban online Internet gaming and Internet lottery sales because it challenges the federal-state relationship. The regulation of gaming is an issue that has historically been addressed by the states. Regardless of whether governors are in favor of offering gaming within their own states, decisions at the federal level that affect state regulatory authority should not be made unilaterally without state input. A strong, cooperative relationship between the states and federal government is vital to serve best the interests of all citizens. The Restoration of America’s Wire Act was introduced into both the U.S. Senate (S. 2159) and House of Representatives (H.R. 4301) two months ago by Senator Lindsey Graham (R – S.C.) and Representative Jason Chaffetz (R – Utah), respectively. The goal of the bill is to revert the interpretation of the 1961 Wire Act to, once again, prohibit all internet gambling. The Wire Act only specifies that online sports betting is illegal (while there was no internet 53 years ago, the Act bans sports betting over wire communications, logically interpreted as including the internet), but the U.S. Department of Justice had been of the opinion that it outlawed all internet gambling. In late 2011, the Department of Justice clarified its stance on the Wire Act, confirming that it only applied to sports betting. This new, correct interpretation has not made Sheldon Adelson and other online poker opponents happy, as it opened the door for states to individually legalize and regulate online gaming. Three states have – Delaware, New Jersey, and Nevada – and more states are considering it. Reverting back to the incorrect interpretation of the Wire Act would likely require those states to shut down their online gambling industries and take away gambling decisions from the states when that is something states have traditionally been allowed to control themselves.'