Congress Created a Special Court to Deport Terrorists in 1996. It Just Got Its First Case
30 years overdue.
by | July 31, 2026
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Insane, but true.
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, a flawed but fairly sensible piece of legislation, put into places measures like the ability to classify foreign terrorist groups and ban funding to them, as well as keeping terrorists out of America, and it also created the U.S. Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC).

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