Home›Open Questions›How consistently should the six Baker v Carr factors be weighed when a federal court decides whether an issue is a nonjusticiable political question?Open QuestionsHow consistently should the six Baker v Carr factors be weighed when a federal court decides whether an issue is a nonjusticiable political question?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextLaw Atlas. "How consistently should the six Baker v Carr factors be weighed when a federal court decides whether an issue is a nonjusticiable political question?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-law.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/political-question-doctrine-factor-consistency.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextLaw Atlas. (n.d.). How consistently should the six Baker v Carr factors be weighed when a federal court decides whether an issue is a nonjusticiable political question?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-law.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/political-question-doctrine-factor-consistencyCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{lawatlas-how-consistently-should-the-six-baker-v, author = {Law Atlas}, title = {How consistently should the six Baker v Carr factors be weighed when a federal court decides whether an issue is a nonjusticiable political question?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-law.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/political-question-doctrine-factor-consistency}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionCornell Law School's own Legal Information Institute entry records that the political question doctrine's own application is inconsistent and difficult, invoked far more readily in foreign-affairs cases than in domestic ones; no single weighting of the six Baker factors has commanded lasting agreement among courts or scholars, and the Supreme Court itself has never definitively resolved which factor or combination of factors controls.What would resolve this A Supreme Court decision squarely addressing how the six Baker factors interact, or a sustained scholarly consensus reconciling the doctrine's own inconsistent domestic and foreign-affairs application, would settle the question; neither exists today.OpenConstitutional law; comparative separation-of-powers scholarshipPolitical Question Doctrine (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)Cross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnSeparation of Powers, Doctrines Well-attested Source Political Question Doctrine (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)SourcesPolitical Question Doctrine (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)ApplicationView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year