Court Opinion

ID: 9480349
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:45:26.540779+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:47:37.836640
License: Public Domain

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:

The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven

Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;

It blesseth him that gives and him that takes;

’Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes

The throne’d monarch better than his crown ...

Mercy is above this sceptred sway;

It is enthrone’d in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself1
I agree with the district court’s result and the spirit of its reasoning. Inspiring our constitution, mercy emanates from the empyrean, not from the executive branch, or in this case, the attorney general’s scepter. I thus respectfully dissent.

. Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice, IV, c. 1597.