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Congress is cowed; that’s one supposedly coequal branch of government down.

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

The legislature and judiciary are separate and coequal branches of government.

Justice Laurie McKinnon said the legislative subpoena, “was blatantly designed to interfere with, if not malign, a coequal and independent branch of government,” violating the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers.

Climate change and salmon extinction are two reasons the U.S. and Canada need to add ecosystem management — health of the river — as a third primary treaty purpose coequal with hydropower and flood-risk management.