Creating a company with the intent to circumvent the law is definitely something that should be punishable with stricter measures than simply breaking the law directly.
replyStates have the right to enforce gambling laws, even if the defendant calls it something else.
replyIt is the same argument that a "sovereign citizen". The "I do not recognize your law" kind of stupidity. The only reason they have not been long in prison is corruption at the highest level at the White House.
replyThey allegedly knowingly broke state law, how can state law exist if it was just always going to be overruled by federal jurisdiction?
replyYeah thats what drug traffickers who are also facing murder charges say...
replyThey're being threatened with prion time because they broke state law. That the federal government is looking one way while states another is not the cause of the jail time threat.
reply> prion time
replyIn addition to being utterly terrifying, this would fall afoul of the "cruel and unusual punishments" thing /s
(What a typo)
They should be thrown in prison for knowingly violating a law. Trying to play a semantics game (prediction market vs gambling) to get out of it is just scummy. Everybody knows it is gambling.
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