Income Taxes (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of provision for income taxes [Table Text Block]

The provision for income taxes for the three months ended March 31, 2020, and 2019, consisted of the following:

	For the Three Months Ended March 31,
	2020			2019
	(in thousands)
Current portion of income tax (expense) benefit:
Federal	$	—		$	—
State	(339		)	(965		)
Deferred portion of income tax benefit	99,347			47,003
Income tax benefit	$	99,008		$	46,038
Effective tax rate	19.4		%	20.6		%