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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 10:57 AM
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32. Ex Post Facto covers laws, criminal and civil.
The banks chose not to challenge the legislation that retroactively changed TARP. That didn't make it constitutional.

From the Constitution:

    No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
That's pretty clear language.

If Congress does raise or eliminate the cap, BP might challenge its constitutionality and they might not. I wouldn't want to claim that I know something I don't. That would be silly.
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