It's Thursday, January 11, 2024. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Increasingly, there is one name at the center of so much of the legal and constitutional

conversation in the United States. Increasingly, that name is Donald J. Trump, the former president of the United States and current apparent front runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

We are looking potentially at a rematch of the election that took place in 2020 with Joe Biden versus

Donald Trump.

But now Joe Biden's the incumbent president of the United States and former President Donald

Trump is emerging as his central challenger but also challenging are massive issues

appearing before the courts. Just in recent days several hearings have been heard in several different courtrooms but most importantly in terms of our worldview consideration

We need to look at what took place this week at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Now that court is second only to the Supreme Court of the United States in terms of its

authority in this country and the magnitude of the issues with which it deals.

It is often seen as a setup for the Supreme Court in two ways.

Number one, in terms of justices who will eventually sit on the Supreme Court.

Many of them have been seated previously at the US Court of Appeals

for the DC Circuit. But you also have cases that are set up. Cases that raise huge questions

of constitutional magnitude and the establishment of legal precedent.

And that's why what took place at the DC Circuit this week turns out to be really, really important.

Because in the hearing that was held this week in Washington DC

the former president of the United States through his attorneys but within

president in the courtroom made the argument that he had total immunity for actions taken while he was

president of the United States. In my total immunity from criminal

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