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Cite as:  599 U. S. ____ (2023) 

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Opinion of the Court 

competent  jurisdiction  to  collaterally  attack  his  sentence 
based on an alleged error of substantive statutory law.  As 
far as history and the Constitution are concerned, “there is 
nothing incongruous about a system in which this kind of 
error—the  application  of  a  since-rejected  statutory  inter-
pretation—cannot  be  remedied  after  final  judgment.” 
George v. McDonough, 596 U. S. ___, ___ (2022) (slip op., at 
10).  A fortiori, there is nothing fundamentally surprising
about  Congress  declining  to  make  such  errors  remediable 
in a second or successive collateral attack. 

We affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals. 

IV 

It is so ordered.