In Williams v. Taylor, the Supreme Court read a section of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) to change the long-prevailing de novo standard of review of federal habeas petitions by state prisoners. In holding that Congress had denied the lower federal courts the power to grant habeas relief to prisoners in custody pursuant to wrong but reasonable state court decisions, the Court departed from the provision’s text and relied instead on its perception of a generalized congressional purpose to cut back on habeas relief and on the non-redundancy canon of statutory construction. On both scores, the minority opinion had the better argument. Moreover, both opinions overlooked legislative history strongly supporting the conclusion that Congress did not intend to change the standard of review. The case for reading the provision as requiring a departure from the well-established standard of review was thus remarkably weak.

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AEDPA 作为论坛分配：推翻威廉姆斯诉泰勒案的文本和结构案例

在威廉姆斯诉泰勒案中，最高法院阅读了反恐怖主义和有效死刑法案 (AEDPA) 的一部分，以改变长期以来对州犯人提出的联邦人身保护令进行审查的重新审查标准。在认为国会已拒绝下级联邦法院根据错误但合理的州法院判决给予在押囚犯人身保护令的权力时，法院偏离了该条款的文本，而是依赖其对国会普遍目的的看法，以减少关于人身保护救济和法定建筑的非冗余标准。在这两个分数上，少数意见都有更好的论据。此外，这两种意见都忽视了立法历史，有力地支持了国会不打算改变审查标准的结论。