'NAZIRA worked with TAWHEDI to radicalize the family and to conceal their pro-ISIS teaching,' the DOJ claims. The Trump Justice Department announced on Thursday that it has filed the first-ever case in the U.S. Alien Terrorist Removal Court — to remove the matriarch of that terrorist family, Nazira Haji Zada. It notes further that she "meets the definition of alien terrorist as used in 8 U.S.C. The ATRC is a special court created by Congress in 1996. Congress authorized the chief justice of the United States — presently the head of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Roberts — to designate five U.S. district court judges to review removal applications for individuals identified as alien terrorists.