Government checks and balances has ended

It appears the three branches of our government — Executive (president), Legislative (Congress) and Judicial (Supreme Court) — which are supposed to provide governmental checks and balances (so that no one branch had supreme power), has been reduced to one branch, that of the executive.

Consider threats by President Trump to unseat Republican House representatives who do not vote for his legislation, and his attempt to place on the Supreme Court a conservative judge who shares his policies — it appears that the system of checks and balances is finished.

Actually, having only one branch of government and doing away with the other two branches could help solve the nation’s deficit by eliminating the salaries of Congress and the Supreme Court. Jacqueline Wolfe-Lederman, Parkland