political question

noun

Law.

1. a question regarded by the courts as being a matter to be determined by another department of government rather than of law and therefore one with which they will not deal, as the recognition of a foreign state.

Example Sentences

At that time, the court’s five conservative justices decided, over the stringent objections of its four liberal members, that partisan gerrymandering was a “political question beyond the reach of the federal courts.”

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And fourth, fundamentally there is a political question about whether a promise of big cash coming in the 2030s matches increasingly urgent rhetoric about the dangers we face which other allies are using to speed up defence spending more dramatically.

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Among other things, Trump argued the emoluments clause was a nonjusticiable political question such that courts couldn’t stop any of the grift.

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There is then a wider political question.

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Rather, defenders hold that scrutinizing the president’s action is a “political question.”

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