Some members of Congress want the Department of Justice to know that they are unhappy. The source of their consternation is the correct DOJ’s finding in 2011 that the 1961 federal Wire Act—long believed to prohibit all forms of interstate gambling—is in fact “limited only to sports betting.” To show their displeasure, language was recently inserted into a Senate appropriations bill, which made the obvious point that the Wire Act didn’t change in 2011, and that it is up to state courts to interpret criminal laws.
The explanation for why this statement was slipped into a bill four years later is yet another cautionary tale of the corrosive effects of government-granted privilege to special interests, also known as cronyism, writes Veronique de Rugy.
View this article.
from Hit & Run http://ift.tt/1OpaWyb
via IFTTT