A federal judge decided on Thursday not to wait for President Donald Trump's administration to bring a Tufts University doctoral student being held in a Louisiana immigration detention facility back to Vermont as previously ordered before assessing whether she should be released from custody.

We respectfully request that the court move forward with the bail hearing as originally scheduled,” Monica H. Allard, an attorney for Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk, said Thursday.

The ruling is a setback to the Trump administration crackdown on international students involved in pro-Palestinian activism.