Monday, April 21, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 11:50)
Are We Approaching a Constitutional Crisis? If So, It’s Been a Long Time in the Making, But the Potential Collision Between the Executive and Judicial Branches is Dangerous for the U.S.

Part II (11:50 - 20:01)
Liberalism, Conservatism, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia: The Major Debate on How to Apply Due Process of Law in This Case

Part III (20:01 - 25:20)
America’s Rebellion, 250 Years Later: The 250-Year Anniversary of the Founding of the American Revolution

Have You Noticed It’s America’s 250th Birthday? by The Wall Street Journal (Allen C. Guelzo)
Abraham Lincoln: God’s Providence, Natural Law, Liberal Democracy by Thinking in Public (R. Albert Mohler, Jr. and Allen C. Guelzo)
Leadership in Civil War, Treason, and the Burden of History: The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Lee by Thinking in Public (R. Albert Mohler, Jr. and Allen C. Guelzo)
Gettysburg in American Memory by Thinking in Public (R. Albert Mohler, Jr. and Allen C. Guelzo)
And The War Came: A Conversation About The Civil War by Thinking in Public (R. Albert Mohler, Jr. and Allen C. Guelzo)

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0:00.0	It's Monday, April 21st, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:14.5	Are the executive and judicial branches of the United States government about to run into a massive collision?
0:22.6	That is at least what some people are expecting. It's what others are fearing as you look at an impending set of collisions
0:28.6	between the Trump administration and the federal courts. Now, this is not something entirely new,
0:34.4	and it certainly is not unexpected. Because even as President Trump entered
0:39.0	into his second term with a great deal of energy, much of that energy has basically been directed
0:45.2	towards massive change in a demonstration of executive power and a claim of executive authority
0:51.9	that everyone inside and outside the Trump administration knew
0:55.7	would bring judicial scrutiny.
0:58.8	Now, one of the things I pointed out weeks ago on the briefing shortly after President Trump
1:03.1	entered his second term is that a part of the administration strategy, this term is to try to
1:10.0	demonstrate the limits or test the limits of executive authority
1:14.3	through executive actions, executive orders, doge. You just go right down through the agenda,
1:20.0	the Trump administration, and dare lawsuits to come, dare other entities to sue. And furthermore,
1:27.1	their strategy seemed to be to flood the federal
1:29.5	courts with so many cases simultaneously that it would be almost impossible for a lot of this to be
1:35.6	adjudicated, at least well into the president's second term. Now, just as every middle school
1:41.2	student knows, or at least should know, the American government at the federal level is divided into three co-equal branches, at least in theory.
1:50.3	The executive, the legislative, and the judicial. Constitutionally, it's the legislative that comes first.
1:57.0	And you understand that each of these three branches of government is watching the other, engaging the other.
2:03.5	The Constitution of the United States gives certain authority and prerogatives to each,
2:08.7	but they have to work together in one way or another.
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