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 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to the General Accountability Office, in June of 1989, there were only 69 immigration judges. This made it difficult for ...

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 ...

Newswise — As the Alien Terrorist Removal Court prepares for a release hearing today, I wanted to flag Aram Gavoor, a GW Law professor and leading expert on the court, who is available to discuss the ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the bus drove away from the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, in Anson, Texas, on ...

A federal court that Congress created in 1996, which nobody ever used, just heard its first case. The Alien Terrorist Removal Court sat on the books for thirty years like a piece of legal furniture no ...

Expedited removal proceedings were proposed initially in the early 1980s as summary exclusions in response to the Mariel boatlift, a reaction to Cuba’s Castro regime that brought approximately 125,000 ...

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.