political question

noun

Law.

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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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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Under the so-called political question doctrine there are some issues, particularly pertaining to national security, that are simply not justiciable — that is, the courts rightly stay away from them.

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