"The 427-page document recommending “terrorist” designations for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its Florida chapter was approved over the course of just 30 seconds at DeSantis’s cabinet meeting on Tuesday, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Contained within the approved packet, submitted by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, were also recommendations for “antifa” and dozens of other groups already named as foreign terrorist organizations by the federal government to be listed as “terrorist” groups. The ACLU and other legal partners have pledged to file a legal challenge against the designation on behalf of CAIR and CAIR-Florida, preventing it from going into place. ACLU counsel say that, at the meeting on Tuesday, they were barred from being able to present arguments against the designation, which they say was done simply because DeSantis and his Republican cabinet see CAIR as a “threat” because of its faith-based mission. “Gov. DeSantis’s use of Florida’s dangerous new ‘terrorism’ designation regime against CAIR and its Florida chapter is baseless and unconstitutional,” said Hina Shamshi, who directs the ACLU’s National Security Project. “As the country’s leading Muslim civil rights group, CAIR is being targeted not because it poses a threat to public safety, but because doing so serves a political agenda at the expense of Floridians’ rights.” https://truthout.org/articles/desantis-cabinet-designate-major-muslim-american-group-as-terrorist/