https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59974939

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of an American woman who joined the Islamic State (IS) and is seeking re-entry to the US.

Hoda Muthana grew up in Alabama and travelled to Syria to join IS in 2014.

While she was abroad, authorities determined Ms Muthana, now 27, was not a US citizen and revoked her passport.

In 2019, Ms Muthana's father appealed against a federal court that barred her entry. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court declined the case without comment.

Ms Muthana, the daughter of a Yemeni diplomat, was born in the US. But under federal law, the children of diplomats born in the US are not automatically bestowed citizenship.

In his lawsuit, Ahmed Ali Muthana argued his family had given up diplomatic status before his daughter was born, making her a citizen. They maintained Ms Muthana was previously recognised as a citizen by the US State Department and given a US passport in 2004.

Ms Muthana's case has been compared to that of UK-born teenager Shamima Begum, who has been stripped of her British citizenship.

In a statement to CNN in 2019, Ms Muthana said she was a "naive, angry and arrogant young woman" when she left the US for Syria.

To fund her trip, she withdrew from college and used her tuition money to purchase a flight to Turkey without her family's knowledge, she has told US media.

Social media posts during her time with the extremist group show Ms Muthana applauding terrorist attacks and encouraging other Americans to join IS.

"There are soooo many Aussies and Brits here but where are the Americans, wake up u cowards," she wrote on Twitter in a post obtained by the New York Times.

Ms Muthana has since said she deeply regrets joining IS and apologised for the posts promoting the group. She now has a toddler son, with a man she met while living with the group. The father has since died.

Her current whereabouts are unclear.

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>Her current whereabouts are unclear.

prolly came up thru mexico kek

recall elections re swamp

impeach biden: open borders, arming taliban, inflation, covid

https://gab.com/RealMarjorieGreene/posts/107923736612016280

Marjorie Greene

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Call your Representative at 202-225-3121 and ask them to cosponsor H. Res. 968.

You deserve to know how Congress votes on EVERY BILL!

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-secrets/no-more-hiding-mtg-demands-transparency-in-house-votes

Voice votes, voting by proxy, and voting “present” would be banned under a sweeping call for transparency in House votes pushed by Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Greene, who is only allowed to vote on the House floor because Democrats banned her from sitting on committees, today offered legislation aimed at better informing the nation how members vote while also forcing members to take a public position on everything that comes before the chamber.

“They shouldn’t hide. Everything should be transparent,” Greene said.

In an interview, the first-term Republican said she has been dismayed at how often business on the House floor has been approved by voice vote. She has also been surprised by the number of members simply voting "present," which is a neutral vote, or who have others vote for them, a practice started two years ago when the coronavirus was raging.

The lawmaker said that when Democrats voted her off committees because of some of her controversial positions, it gave her time to study the House floor instead.

And Greene didn’t like how it operated. She has often demanded recorded votes when Democratic leaders hoped instead for quick voice votes. She did that three times on Monday.

She even has a name for the core group of House Democrats and Republicans who control the voting: the “Uniparty.” ..