Barrett v. United States · ¶66

Like its silence in the statutory text, Congress’s debate- floor silence says a lot. The Blockburger presumption is “long-settled,” Gamble v. United States, 587 U. S. 678, 710 (2019), muscular, and fundamental to our law. We think it highly unlikely that the “‘lawyer’s body’” that is Congress, Albernaz, 450 U. S., at 341 (quoting Callanan v. United States, 364 U. S. 587, 594 (1961)), discarded Blockburger without comment here.

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