AG Ken Pax­ton defends Texas’ designation of CAIR as terrorist organization

AG Ken Pax­ton defends Texas’ designation of CAIR as terrorist organization

Paxton’s court response cites that the FBI said that CAIR “was founded as a ‘front group’ for ‘Hamas and its support network’ in the United States.”

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton takes legal action in law­suit involv­ing Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”)

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. In a Proclamation on November 18, 2025, Governor Greg Abbott declared the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR “foreign terrorist organizations” and “transnational criminal organizations.” The Dallas Fort Worth and Austin CAIR chapters t…