
BP Gets $5.35 Billion Tax Return in Deepwater Settlement
The U.S. Department of Justice has offered BP a $20.8 billion settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill that will allow it a $5.35 billion tax windfall.

The U.S. Department of Justice has offered BP a $20.8 billion settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill that will allow it a $5.35 billion tax windfall.

As a candidate for President of the United States, Barack Obama promised to restore balance to the Constitution, after what many argued was a period of executive overreach, infringing on civil liberties and the balance of powers. When he launched his campaign, he even referred to his past career as a “civil rights lawyer,” and a constitutional law teacher. Once in office, however, Obama expanded executive powers even further, and led a 6-year assault on judicial independence.

Five years ago today the Guardian was celebrating one of the most glorious moments in left-wing history since the erection of the Berlin Wall. I refer, of course, to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill – a tragedy which the Guardian

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