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 Trump administration has taken a step never seen before by asking a special federal court to deport a person accused of being an “alien terrorist,” Axios reported. The court, known as the Alien ...

The Trump administration's Justice Department submitted the first-ever application to the Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC) - something that has never been done in the agency's 30-year history. The ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...