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Cite as:  585 U. S. ____ (2018) 

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SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting 

Snake,”  a  song  about  a  woman  who  nurses  a  sick  snake
back  to  health  but  then  is  attacked  by  the  snake,  as  a
warning about Syrian refugees entering the country.  Id., 
at  132,  163.    And  in  June  2017,  the  President  stated  on 
Twitter  that  the  Justice  Department  had  submitted  a 
“watered down, politically correct version” of the “original 
Id.,  at  132.  The 
Travel  Ban”  “to  S[upreme] C[ourt].”1 
President  went  on  to  tweet:  “People,  the  lawyers  and  the 
courts  can  call  it  whatever  they  want,  but  I  am  calling  it 
what  we  need  and  what  it  is,  a  TRAVEL  BAN!”    Id.,  at 
132–133.  He  added:  “That’s  right,  we  need  a  TRAVEL 
BAN for certain DANGEROUS countries, not some politi­
cally  correct  term  that  won’t  help  us  protect  our  people!” 
Id.,  at  133.  Then,  on  August  17,  2017,  President  Trump 
issued yet another tweet about Islam, once more referenc­
ing  the  story  about  General  Pershing’s  massacre  of  Mus­
lims in the Philippines: “Study what General Pershing . . .
did to terrorists when caught.  There was no more Radical 
Islamic  Terror  for  35  years!”    IRAP  v.  Trump,  883  F. 3d 
233,  267  (CA4  2018)  (IRAP  II)  (en  banc)  (alterations  in 
original).

In September 2017, President Trump tweeted that “[t]he
travel  ban  into  the  United  States  should  be  far  larger,
tougher and more specific—but stupidly, that would not be 
politically correct!”  App. 133.  Later that month, on Sep­
tember  24,  2017,  President  Trump  issued  Presidential 
Proclamation  No.  9645,  82  Fed.  Reg.  45161  (2017)  (Proc­
lamation),  which  restricts  entry  of  certain  nationals  from
six  Muslim-majority  countries.    On  November  29,  2017, 
President  Trump  “retweeted”  three  anti-Muslim  videos, 
entitled  “Muslim  Destroys  a  Statue  of  Virgin  Mary!”,
“Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to 
death!”,  and  “Muslim  migrant  beats  up  Dutch  boy  on 

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1 According  to  the  White  House,  President  Trump’s  statements  on 

Twitter are “official statements.”  App. 133.