Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

Why Supreme Court Watchers Are Making Bingo Jokes

The high court recently ruled in a gambling case and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo v. Texas was its name-o.

June 18, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

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Let’s talk about bingo: the game, the word and the dog.

The US Supreme Court just decided a case involving all three. The result in Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo v. Texas turned on whether the gaming machines operated by a tribe on its lands constituted a version of bingo. Long story short: If the game was bingo, the machines were permitted; if not, they were prohibited.