Monday, April 29, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

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Summary

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

Part I (00:13 - 13:28)
No Immunity? Some Immunity? Total Immunity? The Big Constitutional Questions Being Raised at the Trump Trials Before SCOTUS

Donald J. Trump v. United States by The Supreme Court of the United States

Part II (13:28 - 20:36)
Immorality is Not Always Illegality: Complicated Nature of the Charges in Former President Trump’s Trial in New York

Part III (20:36 - 23:56)
A Parable of the Importance of Following Legal Procedure: The Story Behind the Reversal of Harvey Weinstein’s New York Conviction

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0:00.0	It's Monday, April 29, 2024.
0:07.5	I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian
0:12.1	worldview.
0:13.0	Over the course of the last several days, so many of the nation's headlines have been
0:17.2	directed towards two courtrooms.
0:19.7	One of them is the most august courtroom in the United States. That is the Supreme Court of the
0:24.7	United States. And the big case of conversation last week had to do with the case being
0:30.4	made by the former president of the United States Donald Trump
0:33.6	that criminal charges against him having to do with incidents related to
0:38.0	January 6th 2021 that those charges should be dropped because of what President Trump and his
0:44.1	legal team are claiming is largely total immunity, nearly total immunity for
0:50.1	the president of the United States in terms of the discharge of his office.
0:54.5	But the actual argument being made by the Trump team is almost unconditional and that is that
0:59.6	the president during the period he is in office can commit no criminal acts.
1:05.0	Now those precise words weren't used but that is the form of the argument that now has
1:09.7	become very much associated with the former president.
1:13.0	And thus you're looking at a real conflict here between the left and the right in the United States
1:17.6	over this question, but at least many on the Supreme Court and in particular several of the conservative justices
1:24.4	on the Supreme Court seem to understand quite clearly that it wasn't just that
1:29.2	this case had to do with former President Donald Trump but rather that it had to do with the president,
1:34.4	our constitutional order, the presidency, and just how a president can be able to work in
1:41.0	office with the executive branch being one of three independent
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