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Department of Justice Overstepping Boundaries

The US Department of Justice is catching a whole lot of flack this month because of the Department’s attempts to overstep its legal boundaries and to push the implementation of the controversial UIGEA just a bit further than is perhaps appropriate. The main criticism for the DoJ though is coming because of actions out of the Department that are not only continuing to enforce the UIGEA by seizing online casino gambling related funds in the US, but the DoJ is also blatantly ignoring case precedence from other rulings and is attempting to overrule state autonomy. The UIGEA is a federal piece of legislation blocking offshore online casinos from the US market. But the individual US states still have the right to operate in-state gambling as long as it does not cross borders.

The recent seizure case in California has the US DoJ pitted against Account Services, a payment processing company for an online poker gambling sites. The Poker Players Alliance has gotten into the fray and is assisting Account Services with case in the courts. The question a lot of people are asking though is why the DoJ is acting as though as Republican is still in office. The blocking of offshore online casinos is a conservative agenda that has yet to be formally addressed by the new administration. As Obama looks elsewhere though the DoJ is pursing a republican agenda and still pushing that on the US.

In addition to the California situation, Delaware is also looking at new online casino gambling and betting related legislation and finding problems with the DoJ. New Jersey as well is encountering issues and the DoJ is right in the middle of all of this, continuing to enforce questionable legislation that the democratic administration has not yet gotten around to changing.