AUSTIN, Texas (FOX 44) – Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken legal action to defend Texas’s lawful designation of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”) as foreign terrorist organizations under Texas law.
According to the Office of Ken Paxton, Governor Greg Abbott declared the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR “foreign terrorist organizations” and “transnational criminal organizations” in a Proclamation on November 18. The Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin CAIR chapters then sued the State, claiming that the Proclamation “chilled” their First Amendment right to free speech.
The Office has now filed a response, noting in part that the local CAIR councils rely entirely on speculative claims and political disagreement with the State’s national security determinations and laws, leaving their argument baseless…