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Rather, defenders hold that scrutinizing the president’s action is a “political question.”

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.

Reinhart acknowledged that he implicitly gave editors clearance to make edits but, responding to the Times' statement, said he “expected basic journalistic integrity in that process that would not open a wide door for distortion of what the editors knew very well to be my intended arguments and effects in relation to the pressing political question of the day: RFK Jr.’s nomination to a position I believe he would use to inflict massive harm on U.S. and global public health.”

The other thing that came up in my research is that in a 1939 case the court ruled that this question of whether an amendment has been ratified within a reasonable period of time is … wait for it … a “political question” best left in the hands of Congress.

So you actually have the court saying it’s a political question best left in the hands of Congress.