MAGA attorney general launches lawsuit to shut down Muslim civil rights group

Attorney General Ken Paxton asks judge to shut down Muslim advocacy group CAIR

by Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune
February 5, 2026

Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday sued the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group, and the Muslim Brotherhood, an international Sunni Muslim group, alleging they are working in concert as a “radical terrorist organization that exists to usurp governmental power and establish dominion through Sharia law.”

In the lawsuit...