Judge Smith said the court lacked the authority for such an order.

The court will lack legitimacy if it is subject to the political control of the five permanent members.

If the federal court lacks jurisdiction, the case is dismissed.

Until the 2000s, the Court lacked independence from the executive branch in many cases.

Without such evidence the court lacked grounds to initiate a trial.

At the same time, the court has lacked the energy to substitute some new and intelligible vision.

The defendants argued that the Court lacked jurisdiction over the issue, as it was a political question.

Second, the Court lacked general appellate jurisdiction over federal criminal cases until 1891.

However, the Court lacked jurisdiction to decide the class-certification question at that point in the action.

The court lacked an effective system of judicial procedure.