Hand v. Scott

Mark E. Walker, United States District Judge

This Court is not the Vote-Restoration Czar. It does not pick and choose who may receive the right to vote and who may not. Nor does it write the rules and regulations for the Executive Clemency Board. Instead, this Court possesses the well-known and unsurprising "province and duty ... to say what the law is." Marbury v. Madison , 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137, 177, 2 L.Ed. 60 (1803). And this Court possesses the unremarkable discretion to find a means for the Board to comply with the law.

In its Order on Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment, this Court…