[muir_redwoods]

I may need instruction here but I believe the Congress is co-equal with both the executive branch and SCOTUS. As such, if congress wants to extend an invitation to a world leader that’s their business. I understand foreign policy is the executive branch’s responsibility but nothing says this is necessarily a foreign policy matter. Maybe Bibi just want to give an opinion on air pressure in footballs.

[tanknetter]

I may need instruction here but I believe the Congress is co-equal with both the executive branch and SCOTUS. As such, if congress wants to extend an invitation to a world leader that’s their business. I understand foreign policy is the executive branch’s responsibility but nothing says this is necessarily a foreign policy matter. Maybe Bibi just want to give an opinion on air pressure in footballs.

Correct.

This is about protocol and past precedent, not separation of powers.

Considering how much protocol and past precedents Obama has broken with BOTH the Republican Congress, I don't have much of a problem with this at all. A coequal branch of Government can only take so much bullying before standing up and doing something in response.

[virgil]

What does the constitution say about this Ya know, that document that Obama has crumpled and thrown into the trash can so many times.

[FredZarguna]

Congress is not co-equal with the executive branch and SCOTUS; this is a myth. Congress was intended to be by far the most powerful branch of government, except in matters where The US can only speak with a single voice [mostly foreign affairs.]

The Federal Courts were intended to be a very weak branch. They are entirely under Congress's jurisdiction. If the Congress decides tomorrow there will be only five justices on the Supreme Court -- or a thousand -- that's the end of the discussion. If Congress decides to completely reorganize the circuits, or take matter under the jurisdiction of the courts away from them, that's all she wrote.

The myth that we have three coequal branches of government is one propagated by liberals [and liberal civics texts] to take government out of the hands of the people.