Dormant terrorism court activated for first deportation in 30 years, raising due process concerns

For three decades, a federal court built in the shadow of domestic terror sat unused — a legal instrument waiting for a moment its architects hoped would never come. That moment arrived this month when the Trump administration invoked the Alien Terrorist Removal Court to deport Nazira Haji Zada, a 47-year-old Afghan legal permanent resident from Texas, marking the first time in the tribunal's thirty-year history that it has been used to remove someone from the United States. The case raises a question as old as the republic itself: how much secrecy can justice tolerate before it ceases to be j