and the DA's employees all agree that:
1. "Easter Sunday" NY PML Sec 109 is singular.
2. "Palm Sunday" NY PML Sec 109 is singular.
3. You don't have to be Greek to read English.
4. If you want to bet at a NY OTB on any day of the year you can simply go to hell.
Lawyers don't you just love 'em?
Vote for the Gambling Party supporting the ideas of do what you want, when you want, without being told by the US when a religious holiday is.
If the woman gets a job for life she will only get one religious holiday off, Deember 25.
The bettors of the State of New York demand that someone see that Nassau OTB is open without respect to religious preference.
Republicans Block Judicial Nominee’s Confirmation for a Second Time
By ASHLEY PARKER
Published: March 6, 2013
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked the confirmation of
Caitlin J. Halligan, a prominent New York lawyer, to become a federal
appeals court judge in the District of Columbia, the second time in two
years Republicans have filibustered her nomination.
The Senate, in a 51-to-41 vote, fell well short of the 60-vote threshold
needed to cut off debate and bring Ms. Halligan’s nomination to a vote.
The largely party-line vote, with only Senator Lisa Murkowski,
Republican of Alaska, joining with Democrats in favor of ending debate,
was reminiscent of the previous filibuster of Ms. Halligan — another largely party line vote of 54 to 45.
Many Republicans said they oppose Ms. Halligan’s nomination to the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
because of what they say is her history of legal activism; most
specifically, they say that as the solicitor general of New York State,
she worked to advance the “dubious legal theory,” in the words of
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, that gun manufacturers could be
held legally responsible for criminal acts committed with their guns.
“In short, Ms. Halligan’s record of advocacy and her activist view of
the judiciary lead me to conclude that she would bring that activism to
the court,” Mr. McConnell, the Republican leader, said on the Senate
floor. “Because of her record of activism, giving Ms. Halligan a
lifetime appointment on the D.C. Circuit is a bridge too far.”
Democrats said that Republicans were interested mainly in stalling any
appointments by President Obama to the influential court, which reviews
many critical cases on government powers. They said that Republicans
could not point to a single case of judicial activism on Ms. Halligan’s
part, and that during her time as solicitor general, she was simply
doing her job and acting in the interests of the State of New York.
“I challenge the other side to give me one instance where they disagree
with something that Ms. Halligan stated as her own views as opposed to
representing someone as a lawyer should,” Senator Charles E. Schumer of
New York, the No. 3 Democrat, said on the Senate floor. “What’s going on
is our colleagues want to keep the second-most important court in the
land, the D.C. Circuit, vacant, because right now there are four
vacancies and the majority of those on the court have been appointees of
Republican presidents and, in fact, are very conservative.”
Ms. Halligan’s nomination was the latest test of the “Gang of 14 deal”
reached in 2005 under President George W. Bush, in which seven Democrats
and seven Republicans joined together to allow up-or-down votes on
certain high-level judicial nominees except in the case of
“extraordinary circumstances.”
Only five members of the original Gang of 14 remain in the Senate —
three Republicans, Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South
Carolina and John McCain of Arizona, and two Democrats, Mary L. Landrieu
of Louisiana and Mark Pryor of Arkansas — and the three Republicans all
voted against allowing a vote on Ms. Halligan.
When asked if their vote was in the spirit of the 2005 agreement or a
filibuster reform deal reached this year, several Republicans said Ms.
Halligan’s nomination met the “extraordinary circumstances” threshold.
“I think it meets the extraordinary circumstances, because of her
extraordinary egregious record,” Mr. McCain said. “This is an
extraordinary circumstance.”
Senator Johnny Isakson, Republican of Georgia, similarly said he was
looking to the Bush-era agreement in voting against Ms. Halligan’s
nomination.
Democrats and the White House were expected to regroup and discuss
strategy for trying to fill the vacancies on the district appeals court.
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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