asserting it and “relevant to interests” it “has the authority to implement.” City of Cleburne, 473 U.S. at 441, 105 S.Ct. 3249. The law must bear a logical relationship to the purpose it purports to advance. Romer, 517 U.S. at 632-33, 116 S.Ct. 1620; see also Gill, 699 F.Supp.2d at 387. “[E]ven in the ordinary equal protection case calling for the most deferential of standards, [courts] insist on knowing the relation between the classification adopted and the object to be attained.” Gill, 699 F.Supp.2d at 387 (quoting Romer, 517 U.S. at 633, 116 S.Ct. 1620). Lastly, the justification for the law may not rely on factual assumptions that exceed the bounds of rational speculation. Lewis v. Thompson, 252 F.3d 567, 590 (2d Cir.2001) (citing Heller, 509 U.S. at 320, 113 S.Ct. 2637 (<HOLDING>)). When applying rational basis review to a
recognizing that totality of circumstances must be considered in determining permissible inferences holding that speculation while permissible must be rational holding that no discovery is permissible in similar circumstances recognizing the permissible use of hearsay without corroboration holding that to be competent under ford a prisoner must have a rational understanding of what it means to be executed