Larkin Reynolds is an associate at a D.C. law firm and was a legal fellow at Brookings from 2010 to 2011. Larkin holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as a founding editor of the Harvard National Security Journal and interned with the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, and the National Security Division of the Department of Justice. She also has a B.A. in international relations from New York University.
Tomorrow morning, a panel of three judges from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Chief Judge Sentelle along with Circuit Judges Ginsburg and Kavanaugh) will hear argument in the case of Salim Hamdan v. … Read more »
Today the Supreme Court issued cert. determinations in two of the several Guantanamo-related petitions that have been filed this term. The Court denied both petitions, declining to hear either Abdah v. Obama (11-421) (Justice Kagan recused) or Gul v. Obama… Read more »
As Jack and Steve have both noted, yesterday the Fourth Circuit issued its opinion in Lebron v. Rumsfeld, the appeal seeking reversal of a district court’s decision denying Jose Padilla declaratory and equitable relief against several current and … Read more »
As Ben pointed out yesterday, the Washington Post report about the possibility that non-Afghan detainees held at Parwan will be repatriated to their home countries is significant news. Apart from its import for U.S. detention policy generally, the development, if … Read more »
When we last looked in on Al Maqaleh v. Gates, the case seeking to extend the right to federal habeas review for non-Afghan detainees held in the U.S.-controlled detention facility in Afghanistan, the petitioners and the government were … Read more »
The last time we covered the progress of the case that I’ll call Al Maqaleh v. Obama II (to distinguish from the first time this case was considered in 2008-2010, Al Maqaleh I), Judge Bates had just granted the … Read more »
Last Wednesday counsel for Toffiq Al Bihani filed a petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court. Readers may recall that the D.C. Circuit summarily affirmed Judge Reggie Walton’s 2010 decision denying Toffiq Nasser Awad Al Bihani the writ.
The petition … Read more »
Jessica Stern has this article over at Daily Beast describing her reactions to Usama bin Laden’s death. My sincere apologies for posting this a day late, but it’s very much still worth a read. Here’s an excerpt from the piece:… Read more »
This morning I read Curt’s thoughtful piece reflecting on the news of Osama bin Laden’s death and how the news was received in various demonstrations across the country. I respectfully disagreed with some of his points—and I wanted to say … Read more »
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for … Read more »
Jessica Stern, a well-known scholar on terrorism and the author of Terror in the Name of God and, more recently, Denial: A Memoir of Terror, has just published this enlightening article in The National Interest. Here’s an … Read more »
Today the Supreme Court denied cert. to the five Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo. The Uighurs had asked the Court to determine that a federal judge who has granted a detainee’s habeas petition also has the judicial power to direct … Read more »
Yesterday the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on Guantanamo Detainee Transfer Policy and Recidivism.
The link to the hearing Web site, which has links to the prepared witness testimony, is here. The … Read more »
Today counsel for the five Kiyemba v. Obama petitioners who are seeking cert. in the Supreme Court submitted a supplemental brief to augment some of the arguments they made in their petition and reply brief. I’ve previously explained the … Read more »
The recent decision from the D.C. Circuit (the Esmail affirmance), and Supreme Court’s recent cert. denials in several cases, warrant an update to our habeas numbers. Before we get to that, however, it seemed appropriate to correct a … Read more »
