Court Opinion

ID: 9427794
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:21:53.901016+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:09.667197
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Blackmun,
with whom Mr. Justice White joins, dissenting in part.
In my view, the time factor and its importance are illusory; if the President does not have the power to terminate the treaty (a substantial issue that we should address only after briefing and oral argument), the notice of intention to terminate surely has no legal effect. It is also indefensible, without further study, to pass on the issue of justiciability or on the issues of standing or ripeness. While I therefore join in the grant of the petition for certiorari, I would set the-case for oral argument and give it the plenary consideration it so obviously deserves.