Disgorgement!

[Skidmore]

Let's help Senator McCaskel get $18.4b back from corrupt financiers. How about forcing a retroactive disgorgement of funds distributed as bonuses on Wall Street as part of bailouts? Two step needed.

Request legislation be drafted to be retroactive.
Vote yes on.

Let's rustle the grassroots and send a chill up the spines of Congress and big shot banker types.

[HereSince1628]

1. Doesn't the US Constitution ban ex post facto laws?

I'm not sure how much of the old piece of paper still exists. But I seem to remember something about that in Article 1.

[WheelWalker]

2. I think you'll find that provision has been interpreted over time to apply

to criminal rather than civil law.

[GOP_refugee]

3. Excellent idea, and while we're at it ...

Can we lobby the Senate/House conferees to drop the obscene $15 billion tax giveaway to corporations?
I'm talking about the "tax loss carryover" provision that allows these pigmen to claim refunds on taxes previously paid back to 2004. You know they will use the money for bonuses and stock buy backs, not jobs.

That's $15 billion that could be put back in the funding they cut from the states.

Anyone in Reid or Inhoye's district, please call them TODAY!!