It's Wednesday, June 11, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and

events from a Christian worldview. Well, what we have right now is a classic face-off, a face-off in

particular between the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,

and California Governor Gavin Newsom. Now, those are two men of opposing parties. In one sense,

they're probably two men of rather opposing worldviews. But right now, they're in a classic

face-off, and the advantage has to go to the President of the United States. Given protest

that the President claims have gotten out of hand there in California,

the President has called out Marines and National Guards personnel

to defend the peace and order there in Southern California.

Now, Governor Gavin Newsom has said that that's an overreaction,

and in the face-off, the point has now been

reached where the President of the United States has threatened legal action against the California

governor. Now, much of this is a form of political theater, and just about everyone can recognize

that, but that is not to say it's not important and that serious constitutional issues are not

here invoked. For one thing,

in a democracy, it is a very unusual thing for the federal government to call out personnel

in one of the 50 states, military personnel, armed forces. Because when you look at the shape of

the American constitutional order, you are not to have troops used in a federal

license in this way, unless there is a dramatic emergency, as called for in several pieces of

landmark legislation. When it comes, for example, to the mobilization of the National Guard,

it is unusual for a president to order that mobilization in a state without the cooperation of the state's governor.

When it comes to the deployment of Marines, well, this is an issue that raises constitutional questions

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