1. Whether a federal court violates the Tenth Amendment by commandeering
state evidentiary law and adding a heightened provision for the admissibility of
defense evidence to deny habeas relief, and where the State has expressly rejected
the federal provision in question.

2. Whether and to what extent the restrictions of Title I of the Antiterrorism
and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 apply to habeas petitions filed as original
matters pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241.

Whether a federal court violates the Tenth Amendment by commandeering state evidentiary law and adding a heightened provision for the admissibility of defense evidence to deny habeas relief, and where the State has expressly rejected the federal provision in question