The Trump administration activated a never-before-used pathway for removing alien terrorists from the United States. Since its creation in 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court had lain dormant ...

Attorney General Todd Blanche in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room Credit: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Justice Department, for the first time in history, used a ...

The resolution gave DOJ a removal order but, perhaps more importantly, spared it from defending the court’s constitutionality while at the same time providing a successful test run for future cases.

The court has existed for nearly three decades without being used. A sealed DOJ application could define how far the government can go when national security evidence is kept from the person facing ...

Updated July 31, 2026 at 11:37 AM EDT The Justice Department has activated a special court that's never before been used to argue for the removal of a woman accused of supporting the Islamic State.

For the first time, the Justice Department brought a case before a decades-old but until now unused special court to deport a legal US resident to Afghanistan after she conceded to being an "alien ...

For the first time, the Justice Department brought a case before a decades-old but until now unused special court to deport a legal US resident to Afghanistan after she conceded to being an "alien ...

The Trump Justice Dept is relying on a never-before-used court for "alien terrorist" removal (Image: AP) The Trump administration's Justice Department submitted the first-ever application to the Alien ...

India, Sept. 13 -- In the first-ever case before the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), Nazira Haji Zada, 47, an Afghan national who previously resided in Fort Worth, Texas, has been ...