Congress established the Alien Terrorist Removal Court as part of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

Congress established the Alien Terrorist Removal Court as part of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

The Justice Department has filed a first-ever petition to a secretive and dormant court created 30 years ago to weigh government requests to deport so-called “alien terrorists”…