It's Thursday, April 7, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

So much happening in the world today, but we start out on this addition to the briefing

at the Supreme Court of the United States and with the fact that by the end of this week,

in all likelihood

Judge Katanji Brown Jackson is going to be confirmed as the newest justice

of the US Supreme Court.

Now the story behind this very interesting

there is a 50-50 split in the United States Senate between

Republicans and Democrats. You can't go forward with almost anything with a 50-50 split. But

remember, the president of the Senate gets to decide split votes and the president of the Senate is the vice president of the United States and that means Democratic vice president Kamala Harris.

And so even as you're looking at this situation,

let's just remind ourselves, as recently

as just a few years ago, it took 60 votes

to confirm a justice on the United States Supreme Court

because the filibuster rule was in place.

But then in just a very short amount of time, the Republicans regained the majority and under

majority leader Mitch McConnell, they moved to eliminate the filibuster for nominees to the

United States Supreme Court. And that helps to explain why in four years

President Donald Trump got to nominate three different justices on the Supreme Court, all three of them

confirmed with a Republican majority in the Senate.

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