It's Thursday, June 19, 2025.

I'm Albert Mueller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States cited with the state of Tennessee.

That state had overwhelmingly adopted legislation that prohibits

so-called transgender treatments for minors, that is to say, children and adolescents under the age of

18. The state of Tennessee thus became one of about half of the states in the union that have

legislatively adopted some kind of

limit on so-called transgender treatments. Some of those children and teenagers, or actually their

families, filed suit against the Tennessee law stating that this was an infringement on medical

care and a violation of the Constitution's Equ protection clause. And that went all the way

to the federal courts. A district court held for the families, that is to say, for the transgender

teens that would have struck down the Tennessee legislation. The Sixth Circuit, that is to say,

the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit cited with the state of Tennessee

saying that the state's action, the legislation did not violate the Constitution.

And yesterday, a very clear majority, 6.3 majority of the Supreme Court cited with the state of Tennessee.

The case is known as United States v. Scermetti.

And Scrimetti in this case is Jonathan Scrimetti,

the Attorney General of Tennessee, and he was named in terms of the original case, and the Supreme

Court case, now, the decision handed down yesterday, puts his name in the legal history of the

United States. It is a very important case. And once again, we see that the

case that was settled yesterday, the decision handed down yesterday, is incredibly important when you

put it in the context of what would have happened had the court ruled the other way.

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