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[CITE: 8USC1532]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
            SUBCHAPTER V--ALIEN TERRORIST REMOVAL PROCEDURES
 
Sec. 1532. Establishment of removal court


(a) Designation of judges

    The Chief Justice of the United States shall publicly designate 5 
district court judges from 5 of the United States judicial circuits who 
shall constitute a court that shall have jurisdiction to conduct all 
removal proceedings. The Chief Justice may, in the Chief Justice's 
discretion, designate the same judges under this section as are 
designated pursuant to section 103(a) of the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803(a)).

(b) Terms

    Each judge designated under subsection (a) of this section shall 
serve for a term of 5 years and shall be eligible for redesignation, 
except that of the members first designated--
        (1) 1 member shall serve for a term of 1 year;
        (2) 1 member shall serve for a term of 2 years;
        (3) 1 member shall serve for a term of 3 years; and
        (4) 1 member shall serve for a term of 4 years.

(c) Chief judge

                           (1) Designation

        The Chief Justice shall publicly designate one of the judges of 
    the removal court to be the chief judge of the removal court.

                        (2) Responsibilities

        The chief judge shall--
            (A) promulgate rules to facilitate the functioning of the 
        removal court; and
            (B) assign the consideration of cases to the various judges 
        on the removal court.

(d) Expeditious and confidential nature of proceedings

    The provisions of section 103(c) of the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803(c)) shall apply to removal 
proceedings in the same manner as they apply to proceedings under that 
Act [50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.].

(e) Establishment of panel of special attorneys

    The removal court shall provide for the designation of a panel of 
attorneys each of whom--
        (1) has a security clearance which affords the attorney access 
    to classified information, and
        (2) has agreed to represent permanent resident aliens with 
    respect to classified information under section 1534(e)(3) of this 
    title in accordance with (and subject to the penalties under) this 
    subchapter.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title V, Sec. 502, as added Pub. L. 104-132, 
title IV, Sec. 401(a), Apr. 24, 1996, 110 Stat. 1259; amended Pub. L. 
104-208, div. C, title III, Sec. 354(a)(4), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 
3009-643.)

                       References in Text

    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, referred to in 
subsec. (d), is Pub. L. 95-511, Oct. 25, 1978, 92 Stat. 1783, as 
amended, which is classified principally to chapter 36 (Sec. 1801 et 
seq.) of Title 50, War and National Defense. For complete classification 
of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1801 
of Title 50 and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104-208 added subsec. (e).


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 104-208 effective as if included in the 
enactment of subtitle A of title IV of the Antiterrorism and Effective 
Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-132, see section 358 of Pub. L. 
104-208, set out as a note under section 1182 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1531 of this title.
