People have sued to stop the government from doing all sorts of things, from condemning a property, to enforcing a soda ban, to collecting domestic phone data. But can you sue the president to stop a war?

As President Barack Obama weighs a military strike in Syria, some prominent legal experts have said the use of force against Bashar al-Assad's regime would be a "constitutional stretch." And more than 100 U.S. lawmakers have signed on to a letter warning the president that "engaging our military in Syria ....