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(Slip Opinion)

(a) Section 1983 has, since the 1870s, provided an express cause of action to any person deprived (by someone acting under color of state law) of “any rights … secured by the Constitution and laws.” The Court has long refused to read §1983’s unmodified term “laws” to mean