Overview
- Florida’s executive order takes effect immediately and directs state agencies to deny contracts, funding, employment and other privileges to the groups and to anyone deemed to provide them material support.
- CAIR and its Florida chapter said they will sue, calling the order unconstitutional and defamatory, and DeSantis told reporters he welcomes the legal challenge.
- Texas issued a similar designation in November, and CAIR has already filed a federal lawsuit there seeking to block that order.
- Neither CAIR nor the Muslim Brotherhood is on the U.S. government’s list of foreign terrorist organizations, though President Donald Trump has ordered an interagency review of certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters.
- DeSantis’s order links CAIR to the Muslim Brotherhood and cites alleged ties to Hamas, claims the organization disputes while asserting it condemns terrorism and serves as a U.S. civil rights group.