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Rather, the court is an independent, coequal branch of government tasked with determining whether the government’s actions—including the president’s—are constitutional and lawful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

The confrontation between two supposedly coequal branches of government has reached a critical stage.

From Salon ● May 17, 2025

It also makes sense that they have a level of independence, though the president has control over them within the constraints that were designed by Congress, as a coequal branch of the government.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025

But, he said, Hill “nevertheless insisted on relegating ‘The Fugees’ billing to coequal or secondary status after her name.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024

The great gods are viewed habitually rather as a hierarchy of coequal powers, than as united by ties implying on the one hand pre-eminence and on the other subordination.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson