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

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SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting 

showing  ‘25%  of  those  polled  agreed  that  violence
against  Americans  here  in  the  United  States  is  justi­
fied  as  a  part  of  the  global  jihad’  and  51%  of  those 
polled  ‘agreed  that  Muslims  in  America  should  have 
the  choice  of  being  governed  according  to  Shariah.’ 
Shariah  authorizes  such  atrocities  as  murder  against 
nonbelievers who won’t convert, beheadings and more 
unthinkable  acts  that  pose  great  harm  to  Americans, 
especially women.

“Mr.  Trum[p]  stated,  ‘Without  looking  at  the  vari­
ous polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is 
beyond  comprehension.  Where  this  hatred  comes 
from and why we will have to determine.  Until we are 
able  to  determine  and  understand  this  problem  and 
the  dangerous  threat  it  poses,  our  country  cannot  be 
the  victims  of  the  horrendous  attacks  by  people  that
believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or
respect of human life.  If I win the election for Presi­
dent,  we  are  going  to  Make  America  Great  Again.’—
Donald  J.  Trump.”    Id.,  at  158;  see  also  id.,  at  130– 
131. 

On  December  8,  2015,  Trump  justified  his  proposal
during  a  television  interview  by  noting  that  President 
Franklin D. Roosevelt “did the same thing” with respect to 
the internment of Japanese Americans during World War
II.  Id.,  at  120.  In  January  2016,  during  a  Republican
primary  debate,  Trump  was  asked  whether  he  wanted  to 
“rethink  [ his]  position”  on  “banning  Muslims  from  enter­
ing  the  country.” 
 A 
month  later,  at  a  rally  in  South  Carolina,  Trump  told  an 
apocryphal  story  about  United  States  General  John  J.
Pershing killing a large group of Muslim insurgents in the
Philippines with bullets dipped in pigs’ blood in the early 
1900’s.  Id., at 163–164.  In March 2016, he expressed his
belief  that  “Islam  hates  us.  . . .  [W]e  can’t  allow  people 

Ibid.    He  answered,  “No.”    Ibid.