The United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court is a special court in the United States created in 1996 which has never conducted proceedings. It consists of five Article III judges, selected by the Chief Justice of the United States. Its job is to determine whether

aliens Alien primarily refers to: * Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country ** Enemy alien, the above in times of war * Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth ** Specifically, intelligent extrater ...

(non-citizens) should be deported from the United States on the grounds that they are terrorists. The Court is modeled after the

United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), also called the FISA Court, is a U.S. federal court established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants aga ...

, and was created by , the

Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), , was introduced to the United States Congress in April 1995 as a Senate Bill (). The bill was passed with broad bipartisan support by Congress in response to the bombings of th ...

, codified at . The court has never received an application from the Attorney General for the removal of an alien terrorist, and has therefore conducted no proceedings.

Current composition of the court

As of 2021:

Former judges

As of 2021:

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* United States federal courts United States immigration law Deportation from the United States Terrorism in the United States 1996 establishments in the United States Courts and tribunals established in 1996 {{US-law-stub

Current composition of the court

Former judges

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