NJ.com – Along with his veto pen, Gov. Chris Christie all but ended New Jersey’s efforts to institute sports betting at its casinos and race tracks.
Christie’s office announced today that he nixed a bill (S2250) that may have allowed New Jersey to bypass the 1992 federal law that bans sports betting in most states, after New Jersey’s challenges to the law in court failed.
In doing so, Christie called federal law “sacrosanct,” while the sponsor of the bill, state Sen. Raymond Lesniak, said Christie “stuck a dagger within the heart of Atlantic City and our ailing horse racing industry.”
The bill — which passed the state Senate and Assembly by wide bipartisan margins — would have allowed private companies to open up wagering operations in Atlantic City casinos and the state’s harness racing tracks.
Lesniak (D-Union) said the U.S... Justice Department wrote in its legal briefs that the federal law doesn't “obligate New Jersey to go away in place the state-law prohibitions against sports gambling that it had chosen to adopt prior” to the law’s adoption. So the measure would have repealed old state laws barring sports betting in New Jersey and allowed private companies to open up wagering operations that might not require state regulation.
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