She worked on the sentencing commission, which is a federal agency. After workng, at the sentencing commission for a while, she was like, what am i doing setting sentencing policy if i don't have enough experience in the trenches with what the criminal justice system looks like? So she became a federal public defender. And she did that for a few years, mostly arguing appeals in front of the d c circuit,. She would go on to write somamacus briefs about gibmo policy. By prohibiting colonel davis from testifying, the administration is trying to stop a fair and open discussion about the legal rights of detaines at guontanma.