After thirty years of dormancy, a specialized federal court designed to remove accused terrorist aliens was awakened to hear its first case — that of Nazira Haji Zada, an Afghan permanent resident in Texas whose family members had been convicted in a disrupted Election Day plot. Rather than contest the proceedings, she consented to deportation, returning to Afghanistan and leaving behind a constitutional question that her attorneys insist will one day demand an answer. The activation of this long-silent court by the Trump administration marks not merely a legal maneuver but a signal about how
Afghan woman deported in first case for obscure terrorism court
Nazira Haji Zada was deported to Afghanistan; her son faces 15 years imprisonment and her son-in-law pleaded guilty to material support for terrorism.