Oklahoma’s new tribal gaming compacts don’t stand up to legal scrutiny, according to the state’s top law enforcement officer.

On Tuesday, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter issued an official opinion that Gov. Kevin Stitt exceeded his authority in negotiating two new gaming compacts with the Comanche Nation and the Otoe-Missouria Tribe late last month.

The two compacts not only allow the tribes to build new casinos off tribal land on properties taken into trust by the government, they also authorize the tribes to add sports betting to their gaming palette, despite Oklahoma legislators having yet to authorize legal wagering anywhere in the state.

Hunter’s opinion was in response to requests by state House and Senate leaders, who maintain that Stitt’s new compacts are a direct challenge to their authority to have the final say on gaming issues. Hunter concurred, ultimately concluding that Stitt “lacks authority to enter into and bind the state to compacts with Indian tribes that authorize gaming activity prohibited by state law.”