United States v. Henry G. Cisneros

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• describing the doctrine as applying to orders where a defendant asserts “a right not to be tried”
• prospective nominee for cabinet position could not rely on alleged infringement of President’s power to establish jurisdiction for an interlocutory appeal—“The immunity, if any, is the President’s alone.”
• “Most separation-of-powers claims are clearly not in th[e] category [of] . . . a right not to be tried.”
• “[I]f there is merit to [the defendant’s] claim about ... infringement on the President’s (and the Senate’s) [constitutional authority], ... there will be time enough in an appeal from the final judgment to vindicate the separation of powers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).