It's Wednesday, February 1st, 2023.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian world view.

You remember this from civics class early in your educational experience, our constitutional

system of government relies upon the separation of powers.

That's rooted, of course, in a Christian understanding of the danger of centralizing too

much power in one place, or even in one function or branch of government.

So our constitutional system has an executive branch, which is headed by the president,

the legislative branch with both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and then

the judicial branch.

Now, at the very top in the federal system of the judicial branch is the Supreme Court

of the United States, and by the way, the Chief Justice of that Court is not just the

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

That officer, according to the Constitution, is actually the Chief Justice of the United

States of America.

But the courts are supposed to be the least political of all the branches.

That is, at least, the theory.

It was the theory behind the formation and the construction of the American Constitution.

It has been a hallowed theme of American politics and civics going all the way back to

the founding.

The idea here is that even as the legislative and the executive branches are heavily buffeted

by politics, the judicial branch is supposed to be, if not unbuffeted, then at least, less

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