Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that CAIR Florida, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Antifa have been designated as terrorist organizations under a new state law that took effect just hours earlier.
The move comes months after a U.S. District Judge Mark Walker, an Obama nominee, blocked DeSantis’ previous executive order applying the same designation to CAIR Florida and the Muslim Brotherhood.
In his ruling at the time, Walker said that DeSantis did not have the power “unilaterally designate one of the largest Muslim civil rights groups in America as a ‘terrorist organization’ and withhold government benefits from anyone providing material support or resources to the group.”
DeSantis said the new law provides Florida with the legal authority needed to enforce the designations.
“We did need to have more of a legal structure to be able to add teeth to these designations,” DeSantis said.
