{"id":2629740,"date":"2026-07-14T17:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-delays-terrorist-designations-as-desantis-law-faces-legal-challenges\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:17:50","slug":"florida-delays-terrorist-designations-as-desantis-law-faces-legal-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-delays-terrorist-designations-as-desantis-law-faces-legal-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida delays terrorist designations as DeSantis law faces legal challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-delays-terrorist-designations-as-desantis-law-faces-legal-challenges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2629740&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Florida officials are delaying the enforcement of a new law that would designate certain groups as terrorists while they develop the necessary regulations to implement it. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement intends to issue rules before making any designations,with no timeline provided,and will update the court by July 22. Several nonprofit organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), have challenged the law, arguing it threatens prosecution and violates constitutional rights. A federal judge declined to prevent the law&#8217;s enforcement pending further review.The law aims to label groups like CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and antifa as foreign terrorist organizations, though CAIR is not officially designated as such by the U.S. government and has no history of terrorist activity. The legislation also <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >bans taxpayer-funded support<\/a> for designated groups, creates new crimes related to material support, and allows for the dissolution of designated organizations. This legislative move expands on earlier actions by Governor Ron DeSantis to combat &#8220;radical terrorist ideologies,&#8221; though some efforts have faced legal obstacles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/florida\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"159\">Florida<\/a> officials are delaying enforcement of a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/4633129\/florida-desantis-cair-antifa-terrorist-groups\/\">new state law<\/a> that would allow the designation of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/terrorism\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"103\">terrorist<\/a> organizations while they develop regulations to implement it, according to a court filing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/assets.aclu.org\/live\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026.07.13-33-Joint-Status-Report-and-Mot-to-Extend-Time.pdf\">filing<\/a> states that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement intends to issue regulations governing the designation process and that \u201cno designation will be made before the regulations are finalized.\u201d Attorneys representing Gov. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ron-desantis\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"575\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> (R-FL) said they could not provide a timeline for when the rules would be completed. The parties are scheduled to update the court again by July 22.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4647480\/trump-administration-trade-fraud-crackdown-1-billion\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump administration says trade fraud crackdown has topped $1 billion<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4647768\/mahmoud-khalil-sue-trump-heritage-foundation-canary-mission-conspiracy\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Mahmoud Khalil sues Trump administration and Heritage Foundation for \u2018conspiracy\u2019 against him<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4647766\/trump-e-jean-carroll-defamation-settlement-wired-judge-order\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump\u2019s $5.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/khalil-sues-trump-administration-and-heritage-foundation-over-conspiracy\/\" title=\"Khalil sues Trump administration and Heritage Foundation over &#039;conspiracy&#039;\">6 million payout electronically wired<\/a> to E. Jean Carroll after judge\u2019s order<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The development comes after several nonprofit organizations challenged the law on behalf of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which brands itself as a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization. On July 2, the groups sought an emergency injunction to prevent the state from making any designations while the lawsuit proceeds, arguing they faced the threat of prosecution under the law\u2019s broad provisions. A federal judge denied the request, saying additional briefing and evidence were needed to determine whether state officials were moving forward with enforcement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the filing, attorneys for the state wrote that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement \u201cintends to promulgate regulations\u201d under the law and that any future designations will be made only after those regulations are finalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom day 1, Florida officials\u2019 use of this dangerous new designation regime has violated the Constitution,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/press-releases\/florida-officials-pause-designation-of-prominent-civil-rights-groups-as-terrorist-organizations\">said<\/a> Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s National Security Project. \u201cGov. DeSantis has simply no legitimate basis to brand our clients with one of society\u2019s most reviled labels let alone to force them to shut their doors under threat of crippling criminal penalties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, DeSantis said Florida would designate CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and antifa under the new law, while also recognizing more than 90 foreign terrorist organizations already designated by the federal government, including the Sinaloa cartel, Tren de Aragua, and Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CAIR is not designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government and has not carried out terrorist attacks. The organization has, however, faced recent political scrutiny over alleged ties to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hamas\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"218\">Hamas<\/a> and other Islamist groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/4633129\/florida-desantis-cair-antifa-terrorist-groups\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/4633129\/florida-desantis-cair-antifa-terrorist-groups\/\">DeSantis to brand CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, and antifa foreign terrorist organizations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legislation prohibits taxpayer-funded institutions from supporting designated terrorist organizations, creates new state crimes for providing material support to such groups, and authorizes the administrative dissolution of certain corporations designated as terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The law expands on a December executive order in which DeSantis directed state agencies to eliminate the influence of what he described as \u201cradical terrorist ideologies,\u201d but the order was temporarily blocked by a federal judge in March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida delays law enforcement of terrorist group designations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4195,"featured_media":2629741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/desantis-cair-muslim-brotherhood-terrorism.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4980,5113,32714,6039],"class_list":["post-2629740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-desantis","tag-florida","tag-legal-challenges","tag-terrorism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/desantis-cair-muslim-brotherhood-terrorism.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629744,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629740\/revisions\/2629744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2629741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}