WASHINGTON—An Alabama woman who joined ISIS lost a first round on Monday, March 4, in a legal fight to return to the United States with her toddler son, even as a judge seemed to support at least one argument made by her lawyer for her U.S. citizenship.
District Judge Reggie Walton denied a request for “expedited” proceedings for Hoda Muthana, whose lawyers sought to have her lawsuit litigated on an emergency schedule so she could get out of a refugee camp in Syria and back to the United States.
