There is no ironclad split in our federal Supreme Court between conservatives and liberals or progressiveness. In a 6 ½ versus 2 ½ decision, the High Court struck down what is deemed PASPA’s prohibition of State authorization for sports betting. It based the ruling upon its finding of a fundamental principle within our federal Constitution which parcels out power to the federal government by way of express provisions and the residual power in the states for that not delegated expressly to our Congress.

Violations of that reserved power was considered to be a violation of the anti-commandeering provisions found to exist by two earlier decision of the Supreme Court in U.S. v. N.Y. and Printz v. U.S., decided in 1992 and 1997 respectively.