WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State has lost the first round in her legal fight to return to the U.S. with her toddler son.
A federal judge in Washington denied a request to consider Hoda Muthana's case on an emergency basis. That means she won't be able to immediately leave a refugee camp in Syria and fight her citizenship claim inside the U.S.
But Judge Reggie Walton did say the 24-year-old woman's lawyer made a"valid argument" for her right to citizenship during a hearing Monday. The U.S. says Muthana is not a citizen because her father was a Yemeni diplomat at the time of her birth in New Jersey. Her lawyers argue he was no longer a diplomat at the time. A ruling could come this summer.
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