McCarthy v. Hernandez · ¶4

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) imposes strict limits on federal courts' power to grant habeas relief to a prisoner convicted in state court. District courts and courts of appeals have sometimes chafed under these restraints, and when they have strayed too far from the modest role that AEDPA prescribes, we have summarily reversed their decisions. See, e. g., Klein v. Martin, 607 U. S. 213 (2026) (per curiam). We must do the same today.

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