The Senate’s Brotherhood Hearing Sits on Tomorrow’s Calendar With No Witness List Posted

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights lists a hearing titled “Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America” for 05/08/26 at 2:30pm in Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226. It is the same title the subcommittee carried for 20 May 2026, which appears on both the upcoming-hearings and past-hearings pages with the prefix POSTPONED — seventy-seven days of slippage on the committee’s own calendar. The committee’s records do not agree with themselves on the original: the calendar entry gives 05/20/26 at 2:30pm, while the dedicated May hearing page describes a meeting “on May 20, 2026 at 10:30 AM.” The August page, at the time of checking, listed no witnesses and no submitted statements.

The trade coverage of the re-listing is thin and circular. Legis1, in a piece dated around 1 August under the headline “Senate Panel Will Examine Muslim Brotherhood’s U.S. Operations,” places the hearing inside a wider push by some Republican members for federal scrutiny of Muslim organisations, and records that civil-rights and interfaith groups have objected that the effort risks conflating Muslim religious and civic activity with support for terrorism. That is Legis1’s characterisation; no named critic appears on the record in it. En.ImArabic’s 1 August write-up is built explicitly on the Legis1 report — aggregation of aggregation, and not an independent confirmation of anything.

Assessment: The title does the work the calendar won’t: “Network in America” is a domestic frame, and everything Washington has actually designated under Executive Order 14362 sits abroad. So the witness list is not colour, it is the whole question — an oversight panel reviewing the January and March tranches looks nothing like a panel built to argue for designating US-based entities. Distrust the aggregators here; two outlets reporting the same Legis1 snippet is one outlet. And note the base rate: this hearing has already been pulled once. A second postponement would be the more informative outcome.