Nevada’s attorney general is making enemies in his home state after signaling his support for Sheldon Adelson’s bid to ban online gambling.

On Tuesday, Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt (pictured right) told Nevada journalist Jon Ralston that he intended to add his name to the list of state attorneys general that support passage of the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA), the Adelson-supported federal bill that would ban most forms of online gambling in the United States.

The AG chain letter was issued last month bearing the signatures of the Missouri and South Carolina AG’s, who urged their counterparts to sign on. A similar letter circulated in 2014, ultimately garnering the signatures of 16 state AG’s, but it had little impact on Washington’s willingness to take RAWA seriously and the bill failed to come up for a vote in either the House or Senate.

Challenged by Ralston as to why Laxalt was flip-flopping on his traditional support for state’s rights over federal power, Laxalt claimed that there were “a couple giant exceptions” to that rule, and gaming was “a different animal” requiring a different approach. (Full video here, RAWA discussion begins around 22:30 mark.)