Legal Commentary

Asteroid Defense

By Eugene Volokh

I leave it to others to debate the constitutional and moral merits of government spending on asteroid defense (my view is that such spending is both constitutionally permissible and morally proper, but I have nothing original to add on the subject). I just wanted to add that one side of the debate is an unusually near-literal application of the saying, ?Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.?

Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).