Bowe v. United States · ¶147

What a leap that is. This case is nothing like those in which we have historically declined to infer limitations on our certiorari jurisdiction based on statutory silence. All agree that §2255(h) expressly incorporates portions of §2244(b)(3). All agree that §2244(b)(3)(E) expressly bars “petition[s] for . . . writ[s] of certiorari.” The only point of disagreement concerns how those explicit provisions fit together. I believe they fit together in a way that deprives us of jurisdiction. But even if I am wrong about that, this is hardly a case of “silen[t] or ambiguous” text, Hertz, 559 U. S., at 83–84, nor one involving provisions that “mak[e] no mention of our authority,” Felker, 518 U. S., at 661. Truly, the majority’s clear-statement rule comes from nowhere at all.

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