Monday, June 30, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 09:28)
Ending the Term with Thunder: The Supreme Court Clarifies the Relationship Between the Executive and Judicial Branches
- United States v. Skrmetti by Supreme Court of the United States
- Trump v. CASA, Inc. by Supreme Court of the United States
Big Wins for Parents at the Supreme Court: Nation’s Highest Court Defends Parental Authority in Two Crucial Cases
- Mahmoud v. Taylor – Opinion by Supreme Court of the United States
- Mahmoud v. Taylor – Oral Arguments by Supreme Court of the United States
- Justices Let Parents Opt Children Out of Classes With L.G.B.T.Q. Storybooks by New York Times (Adam Liptak)
- Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton by Supreme Court of the United States
A Landmark Case in the Defense of Human Life: SCOTUS Sides with South Carolina Against Planned Parenthood
- Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic by Supreme Court of the United States
Stigma is Just Dead? Celebrity Frenzy Reaches New Heights at Bezos Wedding and What the Lavish Venetian Wedding Reveals about (Re)Marriage in 2025
- You Only Get Married a Few Times. Why Not Go All Out? by New York Times (Sarah Lyall)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, June 30, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | In the beginning of this term of the United States Supreme Court, many observers suggested that it might be a quiet year. |
| 0:20.0 | It didn't turn out that way. By the time |
| 0:22.5 | the court ended its term just days ago, it ended with thunder and lightning. It ended with a |
| 0:28.8 | series of decisions. And of course, we look to June just about every year because the court tends |
| 0:34.2 | to hold its biggest decisions until the days just before it goes into its summer recess. |
| 0:40.0 | Well, the court may now be in recess, but the reverberations of these decisions are going to be |
| 0:44.9 | felt for a very long time. Now, thinking of this last few-day period of the Supreme Court, |
| 0:50.6 | I want to go back to United States v. Scermetti. That was the decision we've already discussed, in which the Supreme Court. I want to go back to United States v. Scermetti. That was the decision we've |
| 0:55.5 | already discussed in which the Supreme Court, along predictable lines, declared that the state of |
| 1:00.9 | Tennessee does not violate the Constitution when it has prohibited transgender treatments for |
| 1:07.0 | children and teenagers. So what the court said, let's remember, is not that the state of Tennessee |
| 1:11.7 | must have such legislation, but that it is within the power of the state of Tennessee to adopt |
| 1:17.6 | such legislation on the grounds and for the purposes that Tennessee had stated. So a major blow to |
| 1:23.0 | the transgender ideologues, a major blow to the legal momentum that the LGBTQ plus movement have been |
| 1:29.6 | claiming for a very long time. A reset, but a reset along lines that many of us did see coming |
| 1:35.7 | when it comes to the transgender issue and teenagers, a controversy on both sides of the Atlantic, |
| 1:41.3 | and frankly, a clarifying issue for many people who seem to be, |
| 1:44.9 | well, quite apparently confused about the LGBTQ moral revolution. They seem to be less |
| 1:50.6 | confused about male and female. They tend to be less confused when it comes to children and |
| 1:56.0 | teenagers. So that was one of the collapse of thunder, as the court was going into the end of its current term. |
| 2:03.6 | But there were at least three others to follow. |
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