TEXAS – Two Islamic civil rights organizations have filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The lawsuits seek to block what they call an “unconstitutional and defamatory” proclamation labeling CAIR-Texas a foreign terrorist organization.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Legal Defense Fund (CAIR LDF) and the Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA) announced the suit hours before attorneys held a virtual news conference at 2:30 p.m. to discuss the filing.

Gov. Abbott’s Nov. 18 proclamation declared the Texas chapter of CAIR — a long-running American civil rights group — a “foreign terrorist organization.”

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The proclamation also threatened

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