Kiyemba Cert. Opp. Filed

Larkin Reynolds
Thursday, February 10, 2011, 10:10 AM
Yesterday the government filed its opposition to the Kiyemba III petition for certiorari. We mentioned Kiyemba III in this post a few months back, and discussed briefly the question in what was then a newly filed petition: whether the Supreme Court should reverse the
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Yesterday the government filed its opposition to the Kiyemba III petition for certiorari. We mentioned Kiyemba III in this post a few months back, and discussed briefly the question in what was then a newly filed petition: whether the Supreme Court should reverse the D.C. Circuit's holding that the petitioners "have no right to be released into the United States." In addition, the D.C. Circuit held that "an intervening opinion of this court [Munaf v. Geren] precludes the sort of judicial inquiry petitioners seek; it is for the political branches, not the courts, to determine whether a foreign country is appropriate for resettlement." The petitioners argue this was also error.
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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.
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