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TRUMP v. HAWAII 

SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting 

coming into this country who have this hatred of the United
States  . . .  [a]nd  of  people  that  are  not  Muslim.”    Id.,  at 
120–121.  That same month, Trump asserted that “[w]e’re
having  problems  with  the  Muslims,  and  we’re  having 
problems  with  Muslims  coming  into  the  country.”    Id.,  at 
121.  He therefore called for surveillance of mosques in the 
United States, blaming terrorist attacks on Muslims’ lack 
of  “assimilation”  and  their  commitment  to  “sharia  law.” 
Ibid.; id., at 164.  A day later, he opined that Muslims “do
not respect us at all” and “don’t respect a lot of the things
that  are  happening  throughout  not  only  our  country,  but
they don’t respect other things.”  Ibid. 

As Trump’s presidential campaign progressed, he began
to  describe  his  policy  proposal  in  slightly  different  terms. 
In  June  2016,  for  instance,  he  characterized  the  policy 
proposal  as  a  suspension  of  immigration  from  countries 
“where there’s a proven history of terrorism.”  Id., at 121. 
He  also  described  the  proposal  as  rooted  in  the  need  to
stop  “importing  radical  Islamic  terrorism  to  the  West 
through  a  failed  immigration  system.”    Id.,  at  121–122. 
Asked  in  July  2016  whether  he was  “pull[ing]  back  from” 
his  pledged  Muslim  ban,  Trump  responded,  “I  actually 
don’t  think  it’s  a  rollback.  In  fact,  you  could  say  it’s  an 
expansion.”  Id.,  at  122–123.    He  then  explained  that  he
used different terminology because “[p]eople were so upset 
when [he] used the word Muslim.”  Id., at 123. 

A month before the 2016 election, Trump reiterated that 

his  proposed  “Muslim  ban”  had  “morphed  into  a[n]  ex­
Ibid. 
treme  vetting  from  certain  areas  of  the  world.” 
Then,  on  December  21,  2016,  President-elect  Trump  was 
asked  whether  he  would  “rethink”  his  previous  “plans  to
create  a  Muslim  registry  or  ban  Muslim  immigration.” 
Ibid.  He  replied:  “You  know  my  plans.    All  along,  I’ve  
proven to be right.”  Ibid. 

On  January  27,  2017,  one  week  after  taking  office,
President  Trump  signed  Executive  Order  No.  13769,  82