John Washington III Calls for Guaranteed, Independent Funding for All Three Branches of Government

Presidential candidate John Washington III is calling for guaranteed, independent funding for all three branches of government, arguing that a justice system that depends on another branch for its money cannot stay fully independent. When Congress controls the courts' funding, he wrote, the justice system can suffer — and that, he said, is dependence, not balance.

John Washington III pointed to 2025, when, he wrote, the federal courts had to scale back paid operations because of a funding lapse. "If one branch can squeeze another financially, then checks and balances start to crack," he wrote. He asked readers to picture themselves in court without a $10,000 lawyer, not knowing all the rules while prosecutors do, and argued that judges must be free to protect constitutional rights without worrying about politics or budgets.

His proposal, as he stated it, is guaranteed, independent funding for all three branches, with full public accountability but no political retaliation. "This isn't unlimited money," he wrote. "It's about protecting the people's rights and restoring real independence among the branches."