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In the United States, a political question occurs when a court, particularly the Supreme Court, decides that an issue before the court should be left to “politics,” the legislative or executive branches, to resolve. Notable cases in which the Supreme Court decided that the issues were a political question include Nixon v. United States (1993), regarding a disputed Senate Rule concerning congressional impeachment. According to Jesse H. Choper, in The Political Question Doctrine and the Supreme Court of the United States (2007), legal scholars are in agreement that the use of the Political Question Doctrine is in serious decline in the American judicial system. For more information, see Choper (2007) and Nixon v. United States (1993).