Posted on 07/04/2005 8:10:01 AM PDT by BCrago66
Scroll down a little, then click on "Legal" to the right, to see the odds on various candidates to be nominated to the Supreme Court.
Yesterday, Garza was the clear front-runner. Today, Gonzales has pulled just behind Garza, after a gain of 11 points. The most hopeful development, from my perspective, is that Janice Rodgers Brown is now tied for 3rd place with Luttig, after gaining 10.9 points in the last 24 hours.
Do the TradeSports betters know something that I don't?
Why is betting on this legal, but betting on college football games not?
Your link only confirms what I already wrote. 11/2/04 was the day of the election itself. So my argument stands.
I'm not sure it is legal, but as a practical matter, so long as TradeSports doesn't have assets in the US, it's hard to enforce any judgment against them (I don't think Scotland would enforce a US money judgment against TradeSports.) I have, however, heard of Federal or state authorities going after credit card companies based in America, for facilitating illegal gambling in online casinos.
So I imagine the fuzz could shut down betting from the US, if they put forth the effort.
Logic 101; the undistributed middle
Not this time. This time will be Garza. Next time will be Janice Rogers Brown.
I could live with that. Then once Brown gets in, the Takings Clause of the 5th Amendment will have meaning once again.
The left will sacrifice any principle (that is if they have any) in order to trash any conservative.
Hillary Clinton, after all, is a one-term senator (who may not even win a second term), a woman, a politician with connections to a president that really stank, a politician with all sorts of nasty trash stuck to her shoes and trailing out of her @$$. As bad as the Dems are when it comes to nominations---ie, Dukakis, McGovern, Mondale, Gore---I don't believe they will ever stoop as low as to anoint Hillary Clinton. I probably won't live to see it, but I'm living for the day I can crow "I told you so," because I'm very sure of this. She hasn't a snowball of a chance.
http://saveourcourts.civilrights.org/nominees/nominees/brown_opposed.html
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