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TRUMP v. HAWAII 

SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting 

a  handful  of  Venezuelan  government  officials  and  their 
immediate family members, 82 Fed. Reg. 45166.  As such, 
the  President’s  inclusion  of  North  Korea  and  Venezuela 
does  little  to  mitigate  the  anti-Muslim  animus  that  per­
meates the Proclamation. 

The  majority  next  contends  that  the  Proclamation  “re­
flects  the  results  of  a  worldwide  review  process  under- 
taken by multiple Cabinet officials.” Ante, at 34.  At the out­
set,  there  is  some  evidence  that  at  least  one  of  the 
individuals  involved  in  that  process  may  have  exhibited
bias against Muslims.  As noted by one group of amici, the 
Trump  administration  appointed  Frank  Wuco  to  help 
enforce  the  President’s  travel  bans  and  lead  the  multi-
agency review process.  See Brief for Plaintiffs in Interna­
tional  Refugee  Assistance  Project  v.  Trump  as  Amici  Cu­
riae  13–14,  and  n. 10.
  According  to  amici,  Wuco  has 
purportedly made several suspect public statements about
Islam: He has “publicly declared that it was a ‘great idea’ 
to ‘stop the visa application process into this country from
Muslim nations in a blanket type of policy,’ ” “that Muslim 
populations  ‘living  under  other-than-Muslim  rule’  will
‘necessarily’  turn  to  violence,  that  Islam  prescribes  ‘vio­
lence and warfare against unbelievers,’ and that Muslims
‘by-and-large . . . resist assimilation.’ ”  Id., at 14. 

But,  even  setting  aside  those  comments,  the  worldwide
review  does  little  to  break  the  clear  connection  between 
the  Proclamation  and  the  President’s  anti-Muslim  state­
ments.  For  “[n]o  matter  how  many  officials  affix  their 
names  to  it,  the  Proclamation  rests  on  a  rotten  founda­
tion.”  Brief  for  Constitutional  Law  Scholars  as  Amici 
Curiae  7  (filed  Apr.  2,  2018);  see  supra,  at  4–10.  The 
President campaigned on a promise to implement a “total
and complete shutdown of Muslims” entering the country,
translated  that  campaign  promise  into  a  concrete  policy, 
and  made  several  statements  linking  that  policy  (in  its
various forms) to anti-Muslim animus.