Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "LegalEagle" channel.

WOW! This is what the country needs. The Rule of Law is the basis of any and all stable governments, be they run by powerful monarchies or presidents, or just your run-of-the-mill democracy. The Rule of Law has a divine element, with Christianity, Judaism and Islam all believing God is the ultimate Lawgiver -- and who placed Himself under said Law, those being the ultimate example of Rule of Law. History has shown a slow convergence of all of humanity towards Rule of Law, except for some temporary backlashes.
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This person should be in prison. His bad-faith handling of his finances constitutes fraud.
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The McDonald, the auntfromhell and the phone booth cases serve to highlight the need for a good health insurance system in the USA. Apart from paying more than double than any other nation for health care, the USA also pays a large price in unnecessary litigation and wrecked lives.
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While it is unique for the USA to have a former president convicted, it is definitely not unique in the world. France, for instance, convicted a former president a few years ago. In Democracies, no-one is above the Law. Yet it has looked like there were two separate sets of law in the USA, one for the poor, one for the rich. Trump's case will be a huge shake-up of the legal profession in the USA.
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The main problem with the USA is how it appoints its judges. Because judges are appointed by politicians, they become political appointments and vulnerable to partizanship. In my country, judges are selected by other judges. They are appointed by the King, who is a-political. For high-court judges, the government picks someone from a shortlist drawn up by the existing high-court judges. And it is really easy to get a partizan or in any other way biased judge from a case. Also, the authority of SCOTUS should be curbed. It should not be possible for SCOTUS to change the Law after it has been signed by the President. Their role in judging whether a law is Constitutional should be performed before that signing. That is how it is done in my country: we have an advisory body comprised mainly of (former) judges and scholars, with a staff of almost 700 people, that check every new law. Their advice is followed in the vast majority of cases. The current US system makes it unclear what exactly the Law of the Land is, SCOTUS can change it on a whim. That is extremely bad governance.
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Here I am, trying to explain to my kids that you should never lash out to somebody who calls you names. And here we have one of their idols hit someone over a joke!
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@Broadpaw_Fox Sadly, that buffer zone doesn't redirect the ship. In fact, it attracts the ship, due to the low pressure between the buffer and the ship when it moves closely past it (the "Bank Effect"). It needs sufficient distance from the pylon to allow a ship to slowly grind to a halt.
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You know who is to blame for this? The American Public. Because of their refusal to pay sufficient taxes for the upkeep of their infrastructure, and voting for anyone who promises short-term gains, financed by neglecting infrastructure. Those bridge pylons should have been reinforced as part of building the container terminal. Same for the pylons of the bridge 20 miles downstream, which is yet to experience its Murphy Moment. How should they have been reinforced? Artificial / concrete islands 50 meters upstream and downstream of them, for stopping any ship on a allision course.
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"Should the bridge have been able to survive that impact?" Answer: YES. There was a 100% chance that it would be hit by a large ship at some time during its existence. If there are no bridges strong enough to survive that impact, build a tunnel instead.
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@troybaxter Excuses, excuses! If no bridge can be built to safely span the harbour, dig a tunnel instead. That is what they do in my country. Either build a bridge with a single span so it has no pillars that can be knocked out from under it, or build the road on a dike with a single span bridge in the middle for ships to pass through, or build a tunnel, or a combination of a dike and a tunnel. The best way to survive an allision is to prevent them by design. OR, even better, don't build a bloody container terminal expecting to service sea-going vessels 150 (!) miles inland! We have built ours, the biggest in Europe, on an artificial island right on the coast. Big ships have to navigate zero bridges to get there. It sees MANY times the traffic this Baltimore midget-terminal gets, loaded with goods for a whole continent.
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The first time I heard Sidney Powell utter her claims about these companies, I though: this is going to cost her a looooooooot of money. My bet is that all these defendants will loose these suits, but it won't cost them billions of dollars. Except perhaps Sidney Powell: she was defiant when she received her cease-and-desist notice, and she will need to pay punitive damages as a result. And she will lose her license to practice law.
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The SCOTUS decision, including the minority opinion, is deeply disturbing. It holds the rights of a candidate to be eligible to be more important than the rights of the People to not have a President who is an insurrectionist. Being a candidate for the highest office in the USA is a privilege, not a right. There should be more protections against bad candidates, not less. IMHO, the Biblical standard for high office should apply as well for the Presidency: "to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full a respect." Trump fails on all of these conditions, except perhaps "hospitable" by virtue of owning hotels and resorts. But if the way the Secret Service people were treated by some of his children is an indication (they weren't allowed to pee at the property they were protecting), they are only hospitable in exchange for a lot of money.
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The USA is not the most free country on earth. Ask any person struggling to make ends meet. Americans are living a lie.
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I am particularly hopeful about the Special Master requiring Trump to back up has claims in the media with evidence, inasmuch as they are relevant to the Mar-a-Lardo raid. There must be limits to how much you can lie in the media.
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