Eight months after the US designations, no Brotherhood legal challenge has surfaced in any American court

Executive Order 14362, signed on 24 November 2025, directed the Secretaries of State and Treasury, after consultation with the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence, to report to the President within thirty days on designating Brotherhood chapters including those in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt. On 13 January the State Department designated the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood as both a foreign terrorist organisation and a specially designated global terrorist, along with its secretary general, Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh, as an SDGT; Treasury’s OFAC designated the Egyptian and Jordanian branches as SDGTs for material support to Hamas. On 9 March State designated the Sudanese Islamic Movement and its armed wing, the al-Baraa Bin Malik Brigade, with intent to designate as an FTO effective 16 March; OFAC records the organisation’s establishment date as 1 January 1954. In a statement dated 26 November 2025 the Brotherhood said it “is actively pursuing all available legal avenues to challenge these unfounded actions.” This sweep found no evidence of any such filing.

Where the group does appear in court is Egypt. On 13 July the Second Terrorism Circuit sitting at the Badr court complex, presided over by Judge Wagdy Abdel Moneim, adjourned the trial of 56 defendants in the Brotherhood “administrative structure” case — case no. 4132 of 2025, Tagammu felonies — to 26 September to hear witnesses, according to the Cairo daily Al-Dostor. The referral order alleges the first defendant led a terrorist group between 2020 and 5 January 2021. A separate item on 7 September, carried only by the aggregator misknews.com, reports a postponement in a 62-defendant “administrative committees” file at the same complex; the provenance is unclear, the internal dating is confused, and the two files are easily conflated, so the figure is not established. The group’s own site, Ikhwan Online, published on 7 September a statement insisting its positions on events are expressed through the group’s institutions, and on 11 September a piece framing the pursuit of exiles' families as collective punishment.

Assessment: The gap between “all legal avenues” and any docket is the finding. Either a case exists and nobody has reported it, or the sentence is posture — and for a designated entity, going to an American court means retaining counsel, accepting disclosure and possibly needing a licence to pay them, which is itself a reason not to. Note who is litigating instead: American civil-liberties plaintiffs in Tallahassee, defending CAIR, not the Brotherhood. A statement that only the group’s institutions speak for it usually marks an internal discipline problem or a disowning; what prompted the 7 September text is not established, and we are not guessing.