 legislative branch, whether or not they are nominally in power. It's only kind of a question of degree. The judicial branch is really the only branch that has some independence from that, and therefore the left has kind of waged a full-on war against the judicial branch, including talking about things like packing the court that were far too radical even for Franklin Roosevelt to get through the Congress when he had a three-to-one legislative majority in the 1930s.