Figueroa v. LeFevre

How later courts describe this case

• 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)
• finding a political question on the process for ratification or recision of a treaty
• four-justice plurality concluding that' a challenge to the President’s unilateral termination of a treaty presents a political question