It's Thursday, October 6, 2022. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

No doubt this week will be understood as important for many reasons,

but in the United States, one central reason is that this week marks the new term of the United States Supreme Court.

And already, the court is seated for its 2022-2003 term.

And of course, the big news is that there is a new justice sitting on the court.

More about Justice Jackson in just a moment.

First of all, we need to recognize that the court takes a long summer recess.

Now that goes back to the early constitutional era

in the United States, and it was made necessary

by the fact that for one thing,

the justices and those who appeared before the court had to have a

predictable pattern of when they would appear before the court and when the

court would not be in session. A summer recess is a very long tradition. Now this recess itself may appear to be quite long,

but in the context of America's political system, that's probably a good thing.

But the Supreme Court is now seated for its new term and it is off to a

big start. Now here's where we need to understand the historical context. The historical context

is this. We are living in a country that in terms of so many political directions

has been headed left. But the Supreme Court of the United States has been headed in the opposite

direction.

Now, how is that so?

Why is it so?

Well, the first why has to do with the fact

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