Pitchford v. Cain · ¶29

Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), federal courts may grant habeas corpus relief to state prisoners only in narrowly defined circumstances. Appreciating as much, this Court has repeatedly overturned lower-court decisions that have failed to respect AEDPA's constraints. See, e. g., Klein v. Martin, 607 U. S. 213 (2026) (per curiam); Dunn v. Reeves, 594 U. S. 731 (2021) (per curiam); Mays v. Hines, 592 U. S. 385 (2021) (per cu riam). Today, the Court looks past those constraints, and its own admonitions, to issue a judgment that AEDPA precludes. Respectfully, I dissent.

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