In anticipation of the upcoming vote on the War Powers Act resolutions in the U.S. House of Representatives, the following AEI Scholars are available for comment:

While passage of the Kucinich amendment would have had no operational effect because it surely would have died in the Senate, the political signal internationally would have been debilitating. Washington's credibility and staying power would have been called immediately into question, and not just in Libya, but in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.

Obama has effectively nullified the War Powers Resolution, which requires the president to end hostilities within 60 days (with another 30 days to withdraw troops) unless he has received Congress's authorization. His administration's flouting of the WPR displays Obama's fundamental hostility to the regular workings of the political process established by the Constitution.

The Libyan war is tempting Republicans to sacrifice constitutional principle for partisan advantage.Congressional Republicans should not try to outdo Mr. Obama in a game of unprincipled one-upmanship.

The clock is running out on President Barack Obama's military adventure in Libya. Today his campaign of pinprick air strikes and half-hearted support for the rebels will run smack into the War Powers Resolution.

John Yoo defends a strong presidency and the President's constitutional power to wage war.

Looks like the isolationist wing of the Tea Party movement has gotten a little traction on the question of war powers. Yesterday, the Senate voted to table a motion--introduced by Sen. Rand Paul--to declare as the sense of the Senate that "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."

Obama's exercise of war powers in Libya is firmly in the tradition of American foreign policy. While he has parted ways with antiwar Democrats, he still shows that he has to learn the ways of the executive.