A ‘Zombie Court’ for Terror Cases Awakens

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New York Times: “There are good reasons that no earlier president had sought to use the court to deport accused terrorists, and they cut in opposite directions. One is that the court’s procedures, which allow the use of secret evidence that the defendant cannot see, are at odds with ordinary conceptions of due process.”“Filing a case in the specialized court, then, gives the government great power but probably entails signing up for constitutional challenges akin to those over the military tribunals created after the Sept. 11 attacks, which gave rise to years of litigation.”NPR: Alien Terrorist Removal Court to hold its first-ever hearing after 30 years.