A court created in 1996 to handle the deportation of alleged alien terrorists finally received its first case this summer — and then, just as quickly, lost it. Nazira Haji Zada, an Afghan woman accused of supporting an ISIS-inspired plot through her sons, was arrested in Fort Worth, waived her right to contest her detention, and was deported before any judge could rule on the government's evidence or the court's own authority. In the space of weeks, a dormant legal institution awoke, glimpsed its purpose, and returned to silence — leaving the larger questions it might have answered entirely un
Afghan woman in first case for obscure terrorism court deported after waiving rights
Nazira Haji Zada was arrested and deported, separated from her family in the United States.