It's Thursday, February 8, 2024. I'm Albert Boler and this is the briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, sometimes we confront an issue that has no clear easy answer.

Sometimes that same kind of quandary is faced by a panel of judges or by a court in the United States. That's not

unprecedented. Frankly these days it's not all that uncommon. But today we need to

talk about something with vast worldview implications that also comes with vast

political implications and

given the political volatility this kind of issue it's frankly difficult for

Christians sometimes to unpack and think about analyze from a Christian

worldview but that's our task so let's try to do it we're

talking about the three judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals that handed down an order

on Tuesday two days ago stating that former President Donald Trump

does not have blanket immunity for all actions taken during the time he was in

office. So that might sound like a political question, but it's packaged in this case before the court as a constitutional question.

We have to understand those are two separate questions.

The question confronted by the court is how this squares with constitutional government, indeed with the text of the Constitution.

Well, to cut to the quick, the three-judge panel ruled that former President Donald Trump does not have blanket immunity

for all actions taken during the time that he was in the White House as

President of the United States.

There was one Republican appointee, two Democratic appointees on the three-judge panel.

Just a little footnote here. If you wonder why these appellate courts are called circuits,

it's because, just like the circuit-writing preachers during the time of the 17th and 18th century in the United States.

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