Our job is to interpret the law Congress has enacted and decide whether it is consistent with the Constitution.
In a 6-3 decision, the Court's majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., (a New Jersey native), found that the 1992 law violated the 10th Amendment, which defines the relationship between the federal and state governments, by ordering the states to take certain actions beyond the scope of federal authority. “Congress can regulate sports gambling directly,' Justice Alito wrote, 'but if it elects not to do so, each State is free to act on its own. National Collegiate Athletic Association in which it held that a federal law enacted in 1992-the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) which essentially limited sports betting to Nevada-was unconstitutional. On May 14, 2018, the US Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Murphy v. * Anthology of quotes, comments and jokes
