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"My previous responses to you outline the Judicial branch's limitations. They are precluded from being "coequal" by the provisions already discussed."

So you think that the President is also not coequal since he too can be impeached by congress?

" The Congress, of course, is charged with this responsibility."

How could congress possibly hold the President accountable if the judiciary can not find him guilty? Without high crimes and misdemeanors, there can be no impeachment. If you remove that authority from the courts, you also remove it from congress.

"No more than you are arguing for a dictatorship of judges who have the power to tie a President's hands in time of clear and present danger."

Actually that would be a "kritarchy" and that is not what I have argued at all, I'm arguing for three coequal branches (strange since this was settled long, long ago) and you are arguing for the subservience of one to the other two. Beyond that, whether you realize it or not, by removing the indapendance of the judiciary, you are in fact creating a de facto dictatorship, because the congress would lose their impeachment powers over the president.

[PerConPat]

So you think that the President is also not coequal since he too can be impeached by congress?

I do, in fact, consider the Congress to be the most powerful branch of the federal government. And if Thomas Jefferson had been able to arrange it, the House of Representatives would have been the most powerful institution.

How could congress possibly hold the President accountable if the judiciary can not find him guilty? Without high crimes and misdemeanors, there can be no impeachment. If you remove that authority from the courts, you also remove it from congress.

I wasn't aware that Andrew Johnson had been found guilty of a crime by any court prior to his impeachment.

Beyond that, whether you realize it or not, by removing the indapendance of the judiciary, you are in fact creating a de facto dictatorship, because the congress would lose their impeachment powers over the president.

Again, I'm not aware of any institution, other than the Congress, bringing charges against Andrew Johnson.