Thursday, June 9, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 09:11)
Political Earthquake Reverberates Through San Francisco: Very Liberal Voters Recall the Very Progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin — How Did This Even Happen?Part II (09:11 - 15:43)
Who Is Chesa Boudin?: The Weather Underground and the Boudin Family Legacy in American HistoryPart III (15:43 - 26:50)
Higher Education Is Growing Fully Closed to Conservatives Professors and Conservative Voices — Recent Evidence? The Case of Georgetown Law Center and Ilya ShapiroA Conservative Quits Georgetown’s Law School Amid Free Speech Fight by New York Times (Anemona Hartocollis)Free Speech Can’t Trump Every Other Value On Campus by Washington Post (Alicia Plerhoples)The Battle for the Supreme Court: A Conversation with Constitutional Scholar Ilya Shapiro by Thinking in Public (Albert Mohler)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, June 9, 2022. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:11.7 | from a Christian worldview. A political earthquake |
| 0:14.9 | caused by voters in San Francisco should be reverberating through the entire nation |
| 0:19.7 | and in this case it was about a recall election. |
| 0:22.8 | Now in our Constitution, state by state, |
| 0:25.1 | even locality by locality, you have different jurisdictions |
| 0:28.9 | with different kinds of provisions, |
| 0:30.8 | and in some cases no provision at all for a voter recall. |
| 0:34.0 | The state of California, interestingly enough, the most liberal state in the United States, |
| 0:38.2 | as well as the most populace, it has a rather archaic constitution that has a very low threshold for putting on the ballot |
| 0:45.8 | the removal of a constitutional officer from that office. |
| 0:49.9 | Now this led to the fact that just a matter of months ago there was an abortive effort to try to remove |
| 0:54.8 | California's very liberal Democratic governor Gavin Newsom from office. |
| 0:58.4 | It failed. |
| 0:59.6 | But when it came to a big vote that took place on Tuesday of this week in the city of San Francisco, |
| 1:06.0 | arguably one of the most liberal jurisdictions on planet Earth, the voters in San Francisco |
| 1:11.4 | overwhelmingly turned out a liberal district attorney |
| 1:15.2 | who was emblematic of a new effort on the political left known as the progressive prosecutor movement. |
| 1:22.0 | They turned out a prosecutor because after all he was |
| 1:25.6 | basically elected and operated in office more well known for what he wouldn't prosecute |
| 1:30.9 | than for what he would. |
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