Chris Saunders

Draft Beer Installation and Service Specialist, Progressive Political Junkie... All opinions are my own.

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@SappOutOfPgh @BobGreenburg Are professional athletes regulated?

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@SappOutOfPgh @BobGreenburg And it is still constitutional

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@SappOutOfPgh @BobGreenburg House v NCAA settlement was a very strong lawsuit against the monopoly of the NCAA and its amateurism of its athletes. Just another notch in the govt’s ability to regulate in these avenues bc it has nearly 100 years of precedent.

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@SappOutOfPgh @BobGreenburg This law created a contractual framework for the athletes, a very poor one but a framework.

Again, collective bargaining is not guaranteed in the US, (thank you “Right to Work”) and its absence is unconscionable in this bill.

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@SappOutOfPgh @BobGreenburg This law is horrible, but it is 100% constitutional.

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@SappOutOfPgh @BobGreenburg Legally, under our set of laws, you can because sports entertainment is interstate commerce.

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@SappOutOfPgh @BobGreenburg The athletes are not the “product” being pedaled, sports entertainment is being regulated. Other athletes have pay caps and regulatory limits to their compensation. There is no guarantee of collective bargaining in this country and that is another problem with this bill.

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@SappOutOfPgh @BobGreenburg The Commerce Clause 100% gives Congress the authority to regulate this activity. As for oversight on 3rd party deals, the case law shows that Commerce Clause has that covered too.

So in short, this is all constitutional.

https://t.co/T4Jkzkh2yV…

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@SappOutOfPgh @BobGreenburg Interstate commerce as defined by the SCOTUS has 3 parts.

Channels- roads, rivers, air traffic, internet

Instrumentalities- stuff that moves across state lines

Activities- local/intrastate activities that have a major impact on national economy

So try again…

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@SappOutOfPgh @BobGreenburg Plus, you never answered where this is unconstitutional, bc it is not.

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@SappOutOfPgh @BobGreenburg Wrong, the govt can regulate this commerce under current anti-trust legislation.

This law only caps the money schools can spend through a revenue-sharing cap on AD depts. (House v NCAA)

They can also legally provide oversight on third-party/booster deals.

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@SappOutOfPgh @BobGreenburg Where in the constitution does it grant the right to a free market, collective bargaining, and/or free movement workers/players?

There are collective bargaining federal laws (NLRA), but those can just be overruled by another federal law.

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@BobGreenburg This protects the institutions way more than athletes and that is the major setback with the dissenters.

It gives anti-trust protections to NCAA, like NFL but without collective bargaining.

There are major gaps in other athlete protections that concern many athletes advocates.

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@Steigerworld2 @BobGreenburg ALERT!!!

Angry old man yelling at his current typing machine.

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@professorbriggs @BobGreenburg @ETNreisenweber I dont know if you have already had the correction, but it was Ryan Lauster and not Travis in that 2015 Corry v SR game.

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@JondavidRLongo @ScottPresler @butlerparepubs Maybe instead of all of this fear mongering, Scott should register his campaign organization and file his expenditures so he isnt violating state law anymore.

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@LowellWood2 @1Nicdar Our life expectancy is 9 years higher than in 1964. Now, go find any task you would do today that would be done exactly the same way 60 years ago.

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@colin_dunlap This quack was wrong about this when he was a Democrat, Independent, and now a Republican. He is spreading doubt in the efficacy and questioning the MMR combination. The vaccine that has been safety given and tested for 55 years. There isnt even any approved replacements for MMR.

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@angelojello74 @colin_dunlap “promote the general Welfare”

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@BobGreenburg Id be on board if there was a split on public and private in this state. There is a disparity in resources and allowing a free transfer mostly benefits the resourceful. TN (a free transfer state) has a separate classification if the school provides financial aid.