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TRUMP v. HAWAII 

SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting 

decisionmaker.    Lukumi,  508  U. S.,  at  540  (opinion  of 
KENNEDY,  J.);  McCreary,  545  U. S.,  at  862  (courts  must 
evaluate  “text,  legislative  history,  and  implementation 
. . . ,  or  comparable  official  act”  (internal  quotation  marks
omitted)).  At  the  same  time,  however,  courts  must  take 
care  not  to  engage  in  “any  judicial  psychoanalysis  of  a
drafter’s heart of hearts.”  Id., at 862. 

B 
1 

Although  the  majority  briefly  recounts  a  few  of  the 
statements  and  background  events  that  form  the  basis  of
plaintiffs’  constitutional  challenge,  ante,  at  27–28,  that 
highly  abridged  account  does  not  tell  even  half  of  the 
story.  See  Brief  for  The  Roderick  &  Solange  MacArthur 
Justice Center as Amicus Curiae 5–31 (outlining President 
Trump’s  public  statements  expressing  animus  toward 
Islam).  The  full  record  paints  a  far  more  harrowing  pic­
ture,  from  which  a  reasonable  observer  would  readily 
conclude that the Proclamation was motivated by hostility 
and animus toward the Muslim faith. 

During  his  Presidential  campaign,  then-candidate  Don­
ald Trump pledged that, if elected, he would ban Muslims
from  entering  the  United  States.  Specifically,  on  Decem­
ber  7,  2015,  he  issued  a  formal  statement  “calling  for  a
total  and  complete  shutdown  of  Muslims  entering  the
United  States.”    App.  119.    That  statement,  which  re­
mained  on  his  campaign  website  until  May  2017  (several 
months into his Presidency), read in full: 

“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete 
shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until 
our  country’s  representatives  can  figure  out  what  is
going  on.  According  to  Pew  Research,  among  others,
there  is  great  hatred  towards  Americans  by  large
segments of the Muslim population.  Most recently, a 
poll from the Center for Security Policy released data