Wednesday, January 12, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 11:51)
President Biden, Voting Rights, and the Filibuster: What’s Behind the Atlanta Speech?‘We have no option’: Biden calls for changing Senate rules to pass voting rights laws. by New York Times (Katie Rogers)Part II (11:51 - 20:18)
Does Citizenship Mean Anything? New York City Gives 800,000 Noncitizens the Vote Watershed Moment in NYC: New Law Allows Noncitizens to Vote by USA Today (Associated Press)Noncitizens’ Right to Vote Becomes Law in New York City by New York Times (Grace Ashford)New York City Gives 800,000 Noncitizens Right to Vote in Local Elections by New York Times (Jeffery C. Mays and Annie Correal)Part III (20:18 - 26:11)
Nothing Lasts Forever: What Blackberry, Apple, General Motors, and Toyota Tell Us about the Transience of Earthly ExistenceBlackBerry Die-Hards Struggle With Final Blow by Wall Street Journal (Joseph Pisani)Apple Becomes First Company to Hit $3 Trillion Market Value by New York Times (Jack Nicas)Toyota Topped G.M. in U.S. Car Sales in 2021, a First for a Foreign Automaker by New York Times (Neal E. Boudette)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, January 12, 2022. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.3 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Both the president and the vice president of the United States traveled to Atlanta, Georgia yesterday |
| 0:19.0 | where the president delivered an address trying to put pressure on the United States Senate in general, |
| 0:25.2 | Democrats in the Senate in particular to do two things. |
| 0:29.4 | To adopt two pieces of legislation that the Democrats intend to revise the voting process and to change |
| 0:36.8 | the rules of the Senate. |
| 0:38.8 | Those who things may seem to be rather disconnected, but they're not. |
| 0:41.8 | They are connected precisely because no legislation can get through the Senate without 60 votes. |
| 0:48.6 | 60 votes are required for what is called cloture, that is a successful move to bring something to the floor of the United States |
| 0:54.9 | Senate. Short of 60 votes, almost nothing gets to the floor of the Senate, and that's why so many |
| 1:01.1 | on the left want to change the rules of the Senate. |
| 1:04.9 | But behind this are a couple of very interesting historical developments. |
| 1:09.1 | One of them has to do with the issue that is defined here as voting rights. The Democrats are pushing two big |
| 1:14.5 | bills. The Democrats have named the first of these bills the Freedom to Vote |
| 1:18.8 | Act, among other things it would make Election day a national holiday. |
| 1:23.5 | It would also mandate 15 days of early voting and all states would be required to allow mail-in |
| 1:30.4 | voting. |
| 1:31.4 | There are other aspects to that act as well. The second act is named after |
| 1:35.7 | the late U.S. Representative John Lewis. That act would give to the federal |
| 1:40.4 | government a great deal more control over the voting processes that |
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