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One of the Supreme Court’s Most Infamous Cases Is As Relevant as Ever
Fred Korematsu in 1983. On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court issued one of its most notorious decisions: Korematsu v. United States. The plaintiff, Fred Korematsu, a 25-year-old Japanese ...
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On This Day in 1944, the Supreme Court Upheld the Executive Order That Incarcerated Over 120,000 Japanese Americans During World War II
When the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Korematsu v. United States on December 18, 1944, it had been over two and a half years since Fred Korematsu was arrested in San Leandro ...
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Gorsuch Faces Telling Moment With 15-Year-Old’s Essay on Korematsu
Olivia wrote an essay about the landmark Supreme Court Case Korematsu v. United States. Korematsu, which was ultimately decided in favor of the United States, held that it was constitutional for the ...
Los Angeles Daily News23d
Lessons from the ugly Korematsu decision
Today marks 80 years since the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of orders resulting in the mass internment of Japanese Americans in Korematsu v. United States, one of the ...
Smithsonian Magazine24d
On This Day in 1944, the Supreme Court Upheld the Executive Order That Incarcerated Over 120,000 Japanese Americans During World War II
In a 6-to-3 decision, the Supreme Court upheld Korematsu’s conviction, claiming that the evacuation order was legal and the executive order showed no racial prejudice. Hugo Black delivered the ...