Legal Challenges to Presidential Policies on the Use of Military Force
作者:
Barry N. Sweet,
期刊:
Policy Studies Journal
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 24,
issue 1
页码: 27-41
ISSN:0190-292X
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.1541-0072.1996.tb00549.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
A review of legal challenges to the use of military force, from the Vietnam War era to the Gulf War, demonstrates a judicial unwillingness to constrain presidential policymaking. In most of these cases, the judiciary has ruled the legal challenge nonjusticiable. In the first post‐Cold War challenge, Dellums v. Bush,the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued the equivalent of a declaratory judgment. Arguably, this is the only practical judicial response to the presidential use of force, but it does little more than redirect the policy conflict from the courts to Congress. The rule of law remains a weak reed in efforts to constrain presidential policymaking on the use of military forc
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