'Baseless': Cair sues Florida governor for terrorism designation alongside drug cartels

'Baseless': Cair sues Florida governor for terrorism designation alongside drug cartels Submitted by MEE staff on Fri, 07/03/2026 - 17:57 Republican governors in both Florida and Texas have made the Muslim civil rights group a particular target Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks to reporters at the South Florida Detention Facility, nicknamed 'Alligator Alcatraz,' at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, on 25 June 2026 (Chandan Khanna/AFP) Off The largest Muslim civil rights group in the US has sued the governor of Florida for designating it a "domestic terrorist organisation", potentially alongside some of the most deadly drug cartels in the Americas. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) filed the lawsuit on Thursday in partnership with non-profits The American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center, calling the new law "baseless". The designation opens up Cair to "immediate and irreparable harm, including the shuttering of all their operations and advocacy in the state", the group said in a statement.