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Article: The law: termination of the ABM Treaty and the political question doctrine: judicial succor for presidential power.
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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President George W. Bush's unilateral termination of the 1972 ABM Treaty between the United States and Russia, (1) an act overshadowed by the trauma, chaos, and confusion that gripped the nation in the weeks and months following the September 11 outrage, renewed the long-standing and largely unresolved controversy over the constitutional repository of the authority to terminate treaties. President Bush's announcement on December 13, 2001 that he had given to Russia the requisite six-month notice of the United States' intention to withdraw from the ABM Treaty in accordance with the treaty (2) triggered a lawsuit, Kucinich v. Bush, in which 32 members of the House of ...