Trump v. Hawaii

Decided June 26, 2018. John Glover Roberts Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 17-965 · 585 U.S. 667 (2018) · Cited 636 times

Holding

The President has lawfully exercised the broad discretion granted to him under 8 U. S. C. §1182(f) to suspend the entry of aliens into the United States; respondents have not demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that Presidential Proclamation No. 9645 violates the Establishment Clause.

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How the Justices voted

Decided 5–4.

“Concurring” means agreeing with the outcome; any split shown is the Court’s judgment, not each Justice’s reasoning. The lineup is the syllabus’s disposition of who wrote and joined each opinion. Source: the opinion’s syllabus (supremecourt.gov).

Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah · 508 U.S. 520 (1993)
• Massachusetts v. Mellon · 262 U.S. 447 (1923)
• Kleindienst v. Mandel · 408 U.S. 753 (1972)
• Korematsu v. United States · 323 U.S. 214 (1945)
• Fiallo Ex Rel. Rodriguez v. Bell · 430 U.S. 787 (1977)
• McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union of Ky. · 545 U.S. 844 (2005)
• Missouri v. Jenkins · 515 U.S. 70 (1995)
• Romer v. Evans · 517 U.S. 620 (1996)
• Larson v. Valente · 456 U.S. 228 (1982)
• Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc. · 509 U.S. 155 (1993)
• Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · 555 U.S. 7 (2008)
• Califano v. Yamasaki · 442 U.S. 682 (1979)
• Webster v. Doe · 486 U.S. 592 (1988)
• Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project · 561 U.S. 1 (2010)
• City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. · 473 U.S. 432 (1985)
• Mathews v. Diaz · 426 U.S. 67 (1976)
• United States Ex Rel. Knauff v. Shaughnessy · 338 U.S. 537 (1950)
• Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe · 530 U.S. 290 (2000)
• Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · 326 U.S. 99 (1945)
• Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee · 525 U.S. 471 (1999)
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld · 542 U.S. 507 (2004)
• Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena · 515 U.S. 200 (1995)
• United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · 200 U.S. 321 (1906)
• Lynch v. Donnelly · 465 U.S. 668 (1984)
• Arizona v. United States · 567 U.S. 387 (2012)
• Epperson v. Arkansas · 393 U.S. 97 (1968)
• United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz · 449 U.S. 166 (1980)
• Hollingsworth v. Perry · 570 U.S. 693 (2013)
• Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · 333 U.S. 103 (1948)
• Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow · 542 U.S. 1 (2004)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• Liu v. SEC. & Exch. Comm'n · 591 U.S. 71 (2020)
• Knick v. Township of Scott · 588 U.S. 180 (2019)
• Trump v. United States · 603 U.S. 593 (2024)
• Moody v. NetChoice, LLC · 603 U.S. 707 (2024)

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Source: Supreme Court of the United States, slip opinions (2018). Citation count from the Free Law Project’s CourtListener bulk data. Data last verified 2026-08-15. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).