Supreme Court· 12/10/1979

Figueroa v. LeFevre

Citations

444 U.S. 996
100 S. Ct. 533
62 L. Ed. 2d 427
1979 U.S. LEXIS 4143

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holding that Senator Goldwater’s claim that the Constitution required Senate agreement to abrogate a treaty raised a political question
holding a senator’s challenge to the president’s decision to withdraw from a treaty nonjusticiable
vacating, with instructions to dismiss, an attack on the President’s action in terminating a treaty with Taiwan
describing the Supreme Court’s analysis of legislator standing in Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811, 117 S. Ct. 2312, 138 L. Ed. 2d 849 (1997
finding nonjusticiable a suit by members of Congress challenging the President’s power to determine how to terminate a treaty with Taiwan because the suit touched upon foreign relations
construing Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 221, 82 S.Ct. 691, 712, 7 L.Ed.2d 663 (1962)

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