Again, we are talking about the president utilizing the power of the US government to censor and control information by directly retracting already printed scientific research.
Who are you referring to that is equal in power to the executive?
A broad consensus of academics, who are of course 90% Democrat. This level of consensus is locally equivalent to state power, and additionally is practically widespread.
So you're saying a broad consensus of academics as powerful as the executive branch, which also justifies the executive branch shredding the constitution in order to stop them and therefore not upholding their constitutional duty.
I think they are effectively locally as powerful. And I'm not defending what Trump is doing; I'm generally pro-trans, let alone pro-rule of law. But it does honestly have a nonzero aspect of schadenfreude to it; not to the victims, of course, but to the people who thought this degree of power and behavior entirely acceptable and valid when used in the other direction.
Who are you referring to that is equal in power to the executive?