President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order designating “antifa,” a decentralized, leftist ideology adhered to by various individuals and groups, as a “domestic terrorist organization,” days after raising the prospect in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting.

While the order defines antifa as a “militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government” and its rule of law, it does not explain what people or groups will be targeted.

The United States has no legal mechanism for labeling domestic organizations as terrorist groups. Experts also said it remains unclear how such a designation would work for a broad movement rather than a distinct group and expressed concern that it could be used to justify

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