Argument preview: Justices to consider when a Rule 59 motion is actually a second-or-successive habeas petition

When Congress dramatically narrowed federal post-conviction review of state criminal convictions in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, one of the central changes was to make it … Continue reading Argument preview: Justices to consider when a Rule 59 motion is actually a second-or-successive habeas petition