Quote of the Day

“Wisconsin cannot have it both ways. The state must entirely prohibit poker within its borders if it wants to prevent the [Ho-Chunk] Nation or any other Indian tribe from offering poker on the tribe’s sovereign lands. When the state decriminalized hosting poker for taverns, it could no longer deny that game to tribes as a matter of federal law.” — U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Diane Wood, handing a victory to the National Indian Gaming Commission and the Ho-Chunk tribe, and a defeat to Wisconsin’s attempts to strip the tribe of its video poker machines.