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Court blocks pathway for federal prisoners to raise legal innocence claims

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Fast forward to 1996: In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Congress passed AEDPA. These circumstances included situations in which the sentencing court had been dissolved or the prisoner otherwise could not be transported there – the saving clause, Thomas noted, was enacted before the construction of the Interstate Highway System.

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