Showing posts with label fairness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fairness. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Ohio voters asked for fairness in redistricting. They didn’t get it. - The Washington Post

… The court's ruling noted that an expert witness in the legislative case, Kosuke Imai of Harvard University, used a simulation redistricting algorithm and generated 5,000 possible plans, "none of which favored a party as strongly as the plan adopted by the commission."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ohio-voters-asked-for-fairness-in-redistricting-they-didnt-get-it/2022/01/17/10bb1b8c-77a9-11ec-bf97-6eac6f77fba2_story.html


Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Opinion | Five former IRS commissioners: Biden’s proposal would create a fairer tax system - The Washington Post

… This would benefit everyone who pays their taxes. It would produce a great deal of revenue by reducing the enormous gap between taxes legally owed and taxes actually paid — much of it through increased voluntary compliance. And it would improve taxpayers' interactions with the IRS...


Tuesday, January 21, 2020

McConnell’s impeachment rules package fails by his ‘own standard’: CNN analyst – Raw Story

On Monday’s edition of CNN’s “The Situation Room,” national security analyst Susan Hennessey excoriated the rules proposal for the Senate impeachment trial put forward by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). “Look, Mitch McConnell has gone all in on the notion that this is going to be the same as the Clinton impeachment, that that was sort of the standard of fairness here,” said Hennessey. This fails pretty plainly by McConnell’s own standard, forcing the presentation of the House managers’ case in 12 marathon hours that are going to stretch well into the middle of the night.” https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/mcconnells-impeachment-rules-package-fails-by-his-own-standard-cnn-analyst/

Friday, December 20, 2019

Hoyer: ‘We need to talk about’ delaying Senate impeachment trial - POLITICO

Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to commit Wednesday to delivering articles of impeachment to the Senate, citing concerns about an unfair trial on removing President Donald Trump from office. Senior Democratic aides said the House was “very unlikely” to take the steps necessary to send the articles to the Senate until at least early January, a delay of at least two weeks and perhaps longer. ....
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/18/trump-impeachment-trial-steny-hoyer-087319








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