Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists

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Executive Order 14362 initiates a statutory process to consider designated foreign chapters for terrorist and sanctions listings based on alleged cross-border violence. It rests on clear Article II and Article I, Section 8 foreign-affairs and statutory authority, imposes no immediate rights deprivation or property taking, and addresses a function only the federal government can perform.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  President acts under Article II, Section 1 executive power, Article II, Section 2 Commander in Chief and foreign-affairs authority, and Article II, Section 3 duty to take care that laws be executed, implementing statutes passed under Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 commerce with foreign nations, Clause 11 war-related powers, and Clause 18 necessary and proper. Cited authorities are Immigration and …
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  Order on its face targets foreign chapters in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt based on described violent acts, not domestic speech, religion, press, or assembly. First Amendment association concerns are incidental because any future restriction on material support would apply under 8 U.S.C. 1189 and 50 U.S.C. 1702 to foreign organizations engaged in terrorism, consistent with First Amendment as interpr…
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  No domestic person, belief, labor, or lawful speech is designated. Future effects on a United States person would be limited to prohibiting material support and transactions with a designated foreign terrorist chapter, with government bearing the burden to prove the designation criteria and violent conduct described in Section 1. That is a compelling national-security justification tied to protect…
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  Foreign terrorist designation, sanctions, immigration exclusion, and cooperation with regional partners cannot be performed by an individual, family, county, or single state without fracturing foreign policy and national defense. Tenth Amendment reserves non-delegated powers to states and people, but foreign affairs and national security are delegated to the federal political branches. The order l…
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  This order alone imposes no asset freeze, criminal penalty, or property seizure. Section 3 directs a 30-day joint report and subsequent action consistent with applicable law, expressly requiring consistency with 8 U.S.C. 1189 and 50 U.S.C. 1702 and Executive Order 13224. Those statutes provide notice, administrative record, and judicial review for designations, satisfying Fifth Amendment procedura…

Sources: Federal Register: Executive Order 14362