Professor Jeff Cooper of Cooped-Up responds to Lean Left's inquiry on how Law Professors Glenn Reynolds, Jeff Cooper and TalkLeft would respond to the White House Lawyers' conclusion that the President can invade Iraq without prior approval of Congress.

We're flattered to be included in this intellectual group and will try to respond soon. In the meantime, please read Professor Cooper's detailed response, it's excellent. It concludes:

"A straightforward consideration of the Constitution and prior resolutions of Congress, then, suggests that the administration needs to obtain congressional approval before initiating a war against Iraq. A clever lawyer, no doubt, could formulate counterarguments in support of presidential action without congressional approval. But on a matter as serious as war, it would be inappropriate to rely on clever lawyering rather than an act of Congress.