Speech #1030110276

It establishes a special court that is modeled on the special court that was created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Under this amendment. the special removal procedure for terrorist aliens could only be used under extraordinary circumstances. The procedure could only be invoked when the Attorney General certifies under seal to the special court: First. that the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General has personally approved of invoking a special procedure. second. an alien terrorist is physically present in the United States. third. the removal of that alien terrorist by the use of the normal process of public immigration proceedings would pose a risk to the national security of the United States because such proceedings would disclose classified information. So under this amendment. once the Attorney General made those determinations. the Governments case for the removal of the terrorist alien involved would go before this special court. That special court would be made up of seven sitting U.S. district judges designated by the Chief Justice of the United States. but only one such judge would sit on each case.