@katrinakatrinka I go the other way around.

I’m not trying to simplify a legal complexity but rather trying to point out that it is simple and we don’t need to complexify it.

The president simply has control of the executive branch. We don’t need to make that more complicated by imagining independent legal institutions within the executive branch with all the complications that that would entail.

We can simply point out that it’s all up to the president and he has to be held accountable for everything that happens in his branch.

It overcomplicates things to try to grant some sort of independent agency within the branch somehow divorced from the constitutional order that defines it. We just don’t need to jump through those hoops.