The Justice Department is invoking a rarely used special court for the first time in its three-decade existence to pursue the deportation of a woman accused of supporting the Islamic State. The department is seeking to remove Nazira Haji Zada, a lawful permanent resident based in Fort Worth, Texas, using the Alien Terrorist Removal Court. Zada, 47, appeared before the court Thursday for what marked the first hearing in the court’s history since Congress established it in 1996. Congress created the Alien Terrorist Removal Court specifically to allow the Justice Department to rely on classified evidence when building deportation cases against suspected terrorists on American soil. Judge Joan Ericksen, the chief judge of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, is presiding over the landmark proceedings.