Tuesday, November 26, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 16:01)
The Electorate Was the Jury: Special Counsel Drops Cases Against the President-Elect

Part II (16:01 - 20:17)
Did Voters Give Trump a Mandate? A Look at History and Media Bias

The ‘Landslide’ That Wasn’t: Trump and Allies Pump Up His Narrow Victory by The New York Times (Peter Baker)
A Monumental, Fragile Mandate by The New York Times (The Editorial Board)

Part III (20:17 - 23:53)
A Getaway Car and a 13-Year-Old Perpetrator: What a High Speed Chase of an Underage Driver Reveals about the Rule of Law

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, November 26, 2024. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. In the United States, one of the great achievements we prize is known as the rule of law. This is reflected in our legal system and our constitutional
0:23.6	order that says that no one is above the law and the law should apply equally to everyone.
0:29.3	We need to understand that both of those propositions are fairly rare in human history. To have
0:34.7	them combined is a unique achievement. The rule of law, as we know it in
0:39.3	the United States, did not historically begin here. There's a sense in which it began even in the
0:44.6	classical age, particularly in some of the legal principles that were even recognized by the Roman
0:50.0	Empire. But then you fast forward through the medieval era, and it's not that nothing happened
0:54.9	during that time. That's a slander against that millennium of time. And there was also a good
1:00.3	deal of legal thought during that time, but it was basically reflecting upon what was already
1:05.3	asserted. In more recent centuries, there were new assertions, a new tradition in the law
1:10.3	that was based upon
1:11.1	that classical tradition. And this emerged most importantly in the English-speaking world as the
1:16.0	tradition of English common law. And when the colonies rebelled against Great Britain in 1776,
1:22.4	they rebelled against the crown. They did not rebel against the moral order. They also did not rebel against that
1:29.2	tradition of common law. And so you come to the United States of America, you come to our own
1:34.6	constitution, you come to American legal and judicial and legislative history, and what you have
1:39.9	is the rule of law worked out in a way that is based upon that very clear foundation in
1:46.0	English common law and that, of course, having roots in classical Rome. And so it's a very
1:52.3	important legal tradition and it's very important to watch how it works. When you look at that common
1:58.0	law tradition and you look at the principles behind that tradition
2:02.0	of everyone coming under the law and having equal standing under the law, you also understand
2:08.1	that in every legal tradition, there are some tricky questions you have to figure out.
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