Monday, February 23, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 08:45)
What Is The Question? In 6-3 Ruling, SCOTUS Rules Trump’s Targeted Tariffs are Unconstitutional
- Justices Strike Down Trump’s Tariffs by The New York Times (Ann E. Marimow)
- Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump by The Supreme Court of The United States
President Trump’s Angry Press Conference: The President Provided an Important Leadership Lesson After the SCOTUS Ruling – Don’t Respond Out of Anger
Part III (10:16 – 15:28)
SCOTUS Made a Big Mistake: The Justices Should Have Addressed the Question of the Billions of Dollars That the U.S. Has Already Collected – What Now?
Part IV (15:28 – 21:05)
The Arrest of Former Prince Andrew: The Disgraced Prince of Britain Was Arrested For Suspicion of Sharing Government Secrets
- The Former Prince Andrew Never Should Have Forwarded Those Emails by The Atlantic (Helen Lewis)
We Need to Press for a Moral Reckoning with the Epstein Files: There is a Healthy Moral Outrage in Response to This Story
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, February 23, 2006. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, Friday was a big day. The entire weekend turned out to be filled with news, but Friday was one of those days that the Supreme Court released a major decision. |
| 0:23.3 | And it's one of those decisions that changes just about everything, at least in terms of the |
| 0:28.5 | immediate political landscape. |
| 0:30.2 | And we're talking about the tariff decision, a six-three vote by the nine justices of the Supreme |
| 0:35.9 | Court against the Trump administration, directly against |
| 0:38.7 | the president's plan and the president's practice about tariffs. Now, we need to think at so many |
| 0:45.7 | different levels here. Christians need to think very carefully. Number one, we're talking about |
| 0:50.7 | big moral issues, big economic issues, big constitutional issues. |
| 0:54.9 | So let's just determine first and foremost, what in the world did the court rule on? |
| 0:59.7 | I mean, the headline in the New York Times, |
| 1:02.1 | Justices reject Trump's tariffs in key blow to his trade policy. |
| 1:07.3 | Okay, that's not exactly wrong, but it's certainly not exactly right. |
| 1:15.0 | The justices on the U.S. Supreme Court don't officially care about tariffs at all. |
| 1:18.6 | They don't care if the president puts them on, the president takes them off. |
| 1:24.9 | What they care about is the constitutional authority, the statutory authority in this case, |
| 1:28.2 | and, of course, ultimately the constitutional authority. Now, here's where things get really interesting. So whenever you have a Supreme Court decision like this, you need to |
| 1:32.8 | ask the question, what did the court rule? And on what question did it rule? The court always takes |
| 1:39.6 | a question. What was the question in this case? The question was this, does the President of the |
| 1:45.8 | United States have the constitutional and statutory power to apply these tariffs under the |
| 1:53.0 | International Emergency Economic Powers Act in 1977? Now, that's AIEPA, by the way. If you ever |
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