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Retired Judge Challenges Arizona Poker Laws

By Ed Brayton

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This sounds like my kind of guy. A retired state judge in Arizona is operating a poker room openly and with impunity, practically begging the state to arrest him so he can challenge the enforcement of the state's laws on poker.

Wearing a feathered derby over his graying ponytail, Lee condemns state gambling statutes as unconstitutional, evil, nefarious and anti-historical. He claims poker is part of "our inherent and inalienable right to liberty in the pursuit of happiness." Finally, he contends that a state compact giving Indian tribes the exclusive right to operate casinos is a monopolistic rip-off for Arizona taxpayers.

Hear, hear. Bottom line: it's none of the state's business whether I want to get together with my friends and play poker. Period.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 01, 2008 (boomark / email).

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