notre dame law facult nothing but a bunch of wanna bee andrew cuomo I- Thanks for the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you a copy, if you give me a mailing address. Claude Solnik (631) 913-4244 Long Island Business News 2150 Smithtown Ave. Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348 Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays 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. Dame colleagues call on Amy Coney Barrett to halt Supreme Court confirmation By Aaron Feis October 13, 2020 | 5:15pm Enlarge Image Amy Coney Barrett Amy Coney Barrett Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images MORE ON: AMY CONEY BARRETT Tillis cleared to appear in person at ACB hearings, joins Lee after COVID-19 bout Amy Coney Barrett 'wept' with her multiracial family after George Floyd death Barrett reveals she has no notes for confirmation hearing Amy Coney Barrett says she's made no promises to Trump Eighty-eight faculty members at the University of Notre Dame have penned an open letter to colleague and Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, asking her to halt the confirmation process until after the presidential election. The group — which does not include any instructors at Notre Dame Law School, where Barrett, 48, teaches — called on her to “take this unprecedented step” in light of three considerations. “First, voting for the next president is already underway,” the letter read. “According to the United States Election Project, more than seven million people have already cast their ballots, and millions more are likely to vote before election day. “The rushed nature of your nomination process, which you certainly recognize as an exercise in raw power politics, may effectively deprive the American people of a voice in selecting the next Supreme Court justice.” Democratic lawmakers have voiced similar objections to President Trump’s decision to nominate Barrett to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just weeks before Election Day. “Next, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish was that her seat on the court remain open until a new president was installed,” the letter read. “Your nomination just days after Ginsburg’s death was unseemly and a repudiation of her legacy. “Given your admiration for Justice Ginsburg, we ask that you repair the injury to her memory by calling for a pause in the nomination until the next president is seated.” SEE ALSO Amy Coney Barrett dismisses 'female Scalia' moniker Thirdly, the group cited the overall political climate that has befallen the United States. “Finally, your nomination comes at a treacherous moment in the United States. Our politics are consumed by polarization, mistrust, and fevered conspiracy theories,” they wrote. “You have the opportunity to offer an alternative to all that by demanding that your nomination be suspended until after the election.” The letter closed with an acknowledgement that taking that step, should Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden win the election, could well mean the end of Barrett’s aspirations to sit on the highest court in the land. “We’re asking a lot, we know. Should Vice-President Biden be elected, your seat on the court will almost certainly be lost,” the group wrote. “That would be painful, surely. “Yet there is much to be gained in risking your seat,” the letter continued. “You would earn the respect of fair-minded people everywhere. You would provide a model of civic selflessness. And you might well inspire Americans of different beliefs toward a renewed commitment to the common good.” Though Democratic lawmakers have voiced concerns about Barrett’s nomination over the timing and questions of whether she could have a role in deciding the fate of the election, her confirmation is seen as a near-inevitability in the Republican-controlled Senate. Notre Dame colleagues call on Amy Coney Barrett to halt Supreme Court confirmation By Aaron Feis October 13, 2020 | 5:15pm Enlarge Image Amy Coney Barrett Amy Coney Barrett Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images MORE ON: AMY CONEY BARRETT Tillis cleared to appear in person at ACB hearings, joins Lee after COVID-19 bout Amy Coney Barrett 'wept' with her multiracial family after George Floyd death Barrett reveals she has no notes for confirmation hearing Amy Coney Barrett says she's made no promises to Trump Eighty-eight faculty members at the University of Notre Dame have penned an open letter to colleague and Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, asking her to halt the confirmation process until after the presidential election. The group — which does not include any instructors at Notre Dame Law School, where Barrett, 48, teaches — called on her to “take this unprecedented step” in light of three considerations. “First, voting for the next president is already underway,” the letter read. “According to the United States Election Project, more than seven million people have already cast their ballots, and millions more are likely to vote before election day. “The rushed nature of your nomination process, which you certainly recognize as an exercise in raw power politics, may effectively deprive the American people of a voice in selecting the next Supreme Court justice.” Democratic lawmakers have voiced similar objections to President Trump’s decision to nominate Barrett to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just weeks before Election Day. “Next, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish was that her seat on the court remain open until a new president was installed,” the letter read. “Your nomination just days after Ginsburg’s death was unseemly and a repudiation of her legacy. “Given your admiration for Justice Ginsburg, we ask that you repair the injury to her memory by calling for a pause in the nomination until the next president is seated.” SEE ALSO Amy Coney Barrett dismisses 'female Scalia' moniker Thirdly, the group cited the overall political climate that has befallen the United States. “Finally, your nomination comes at a treacherous moment in the United States. Our politics are consumed by polarization, mistrust, and fevered conspiracy theories,” they wrote. “You have the opportunity to offer an alternative to all that by demanding that your nomination be suspended until after the election.” The letter closed with an acknowledgement that taking that step, should Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden win the election, could well mean the end of Barrett’s aspirations to sit on the highest court in the land. “We’re asking a lot, we know. Should Vice-President Biden be elected, your seat on the court will almost certainly be lost,” the group wrote. “That would be painful, surely. “Yet there is much to be gained in risking your seat,” the letter continued. “You would earn the respect of fair-minded people everywhere. You would provide a model of civic selflessness. And you might well inspire Americans of different beliefs toward a renewed commitment to the common good.” Though Democratic lawmakers have voiced concerns about Barrett’s nomination over the timing and questions of whether she could have a role in deciding the fate of the election, her confirmation is seen as a near-inevitability in the Republican-controlled Senate. would have helped kill ny pml sec 109