It's Tuesday, April 3, 2025. I'm Albert Mowler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, the so-called spring elections that took place on Tuesday are now known to us in terms of the results in Wisconsin.

The liberal candidate won the Supreme

Court seat. That's a very big story. And from a conservative perspective, a very sad story. It shows the

politicization of law in this country and the fact that the courts themselves, which are supposed to be

the least political unit of our or branch of our government, have turned out to be highly political.

And this really

began on the left when the progressives could not get, as they styled themselves, what they

wanted through legislation. Instead, on an issue like abortion, Roe v. Wade, they went to the

court, and eventually in the 1973, Roe v. Wade decision, they got what they wanted, reversed,

of course, by the Dobbs decision in 2022. But the courts have been

an ideological battleground ever since. Now, there's a sense in which the courts have to be

about the biggest ideas, the clash and conflicts that come in the constitutional process. But

when you start talking about candidates as conservative and liberal,

and you know you're also saying at the same time in Wisconsin, let's be honest, Republican

and Democrat, then it's really dishonest to turn around and say this is a non-political court.

It is a highly political court, so I want to demonstrate to you why that is so.

I'm going to use the words of Judge Susan Crawford, who soon will be Justice Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate in this race.

She made a statement in which she said, after winning the election, quote,

Today Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court.

She went on to say, quote, Wisconsin stood up and said loudly that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale, end quote.

Okay, all right.

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