political question

American  

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.

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political question

“This is a political question: Would it look like you’re beating up on somebody who lost their home in a fire?” she asked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026

For China’s leader, Xi Jinping, the unrest is a test of his precedent-breaking third term in power and underscores the urgent political question of how he can lead China out of the Covid era.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022

Mr Hinds insisted the payment timetable was an "administrative" matter to resolve, "not a political question".

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021

Feingold: You’ve raised the fundamental moral and political question: At what point and in what way does one respond to brutal tactics that break all the norms and all the traditions?

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2020

I fully expected him to launch into some huge political question, such as the "Unity of the Empire" or "Universal Franchise."

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Furniss, Harry