U.S. Senator Doug Jones says Alabama ISIS bride Hoda Muthana should return to the United States to “face justice.”

In an interview this morning on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Jones spoke about several issues on the program, including his book, “Bending Toward Justice.” The comments were similar to others Jones made about the woman from Alabama who went to Syria to join ISIS four years ago. She now wants to return home, saying she regrets joining the organization.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton has filed an order for attorneys for Muthana and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appear in court at 11 a.m. Monday. A lawsuit, filed by Muthana’s father, Ahmed Ali Muthana, on her behalf, asks the court to recognize her citizenship and her son’s. It also asks the court to allow her father to send money to her so she can return to the United States safely.

Muthana fled from ISIS with her 16-month-old son and was captured by Kurdish forces in northern Syria. Pompeo claimed Muthana has “no legal basis” on which to claim her citizenship. His statement was based on a technicality regarding her time of birth and her father’s status as a diplomat at the time she was born.

Jones said “no one is going to welcome this person back to the United States - that’s just a mischaracterization.” He said the issue of Muthana’s passport will probably be decided in the courts, and that it’s important that American justice deliver a verdict on the case.

“I do think we ought to consider bringing her back to face justice," Jones said. "We do it all the time with terrorists, with other people that commit crimes against the United States. I think it sends kind of a bad message if we give someone a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card just because they go to the Middle East.”

.@SenDougJones comments on Hoda Muthana from his state of Alabama who went to Syria to join ISIS: “No one is going to welcome this person back to the US. That’s just a mischaracterization. I do think we ought to consider bringing her back to face justice.” pic.twitter.com/alAnC1uMv5 — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) March 3, 2019

Questioned about voting rights, Jones said "state legislatures, governors and members of Congress that are Republicans” are responsible for the backsliding of voting rights, through gerrymandering and other methods. He called it “a political power grab.”

“For whatever reason, they do not want African-Americans and other minorities to vote," Jones said of Republicans. “I assume, rather than trying to get those votes, they seem to want to restrict those votes, And I think that’s incredibly unfortunate.”

He said he supported a new bill put forward last week toward voter enhancement to “put teeth back” into the Voting Rights Act.

“We need to be expanding the voter rolls,” Jones said. “We need to be pushing the percentage of Americans up who want to vote on Election Day, and instead we seem to be working, and the powers-that-be, constricting that, and I think we’ve got to change that.”

.@SenDougJones blames “state legislatures, governors and members of Congress that are Republicans” for the backsliding of voting rights. “For whatever reason, they do not want African Americans and others minorities to vote.” pic.twitter.com/fIKAmenrTC — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) March 3, 2019

Jones was also asked about his status as a Democrat in traditionally red-state Alabama. Jones was the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama since 1992. He called himself “an independent voice” for Alabama and feels good about the future.

“I’m not a solid voice or vote for the president or the Democratic party. I look at each individual vote separately," he said. “I think Alabama, the South, we’re all changing... We’re putting aside a lot of the issues that have divided us in the past, that have caused some of those incredible divisions - division, political and social divisions.”