Tuesday, December 9, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the oral arguments at the Supreme Court over Trump’s attempt to fire a member of the FTC, the need for Congress to act and cut back on the Administrative State, subsidiarity and social media, and Australia’s debate over removing shark nets.
Part I (00:14 – 13:55)
- Donald J. Trump, President v. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter by The Supreme Court of the United States
- Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan by The New York Times (Sarah Isgur)
Part IV (23:02 – 26:21)
- After Deadly Attacks, Australia Debates: Do Shark Nets Work? by The New York Times (Yan Zhuang)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, December 9, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.5 | Oral arguments yesterday at the Supreme Court of the United States, and it is over whether or not the |
| 0:19.9 | President of the United States can fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission, more or less because the President doesn't want this person on the Federal Trade Commission. |
| 0:29.2 | And as the news reports came in yesterday, it was pretty clear that observers of the hearing at the Supreme Court yesterday had a pretty good idea that a majority of |
| 0:38.8 | the justices were going to rule in the president's favor. And there are many people, particularly |
| 0:43.5 | on the left, who are going into absolute apoplexy. You know, this is a really big issue. It's |
| 0:48.7 | worthy of our attention. Should the president of the United States be able, as the nation's |
| 0:53.2 | chief executive, to fire members of so-called independent federal agencies? |
| 0:58.8 | Well, let's just talk about the big problem there is the word independent. |
| 1:02.6 | If you go back to the beginning of the 20th century, we saw something develop in the United States that had never existed before. |
| 1:09.4 | And that is a new branch of government. No one wanted to call it that. No one dared call it that. You know the three of the United States that had never existed before. And that is a new branch of government. |
| 1:11.6 | No one wanted to call it that. No one dared call it that. You know the three branches of government. |
| 1:16.9 | Constitutionally, we have the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. |
| 1:22.9 | And thus you have three different branches of government. You have a separation of powers. Each is |
| 1:27.4 | given assignment within the constitutional order. |
| 1:30.2 | And none is to fail at its duties nor to encroach upon the duties of others. |
| 1:35.0 | Specific responsibilities are given to Congress. |
| 1:37.4 | Specific responsibilities are given to the courts. |
| 1:40.2 | Specific responsibilities are given to the presidency. |
| 1:43.4 | Indeed, to the president. Okay, that takes us given to the presidency. Indeed, to the president. |
| 1:45.0 | Okay, that takes us back to the founding. |
| 1:48.0 | And particularly, it takes us back to the framing of the Constitution itself. |
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