Korematsu v. United States was a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision made in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It established that the U.S. government could intern Japanese Americans ...

This is the 11th part of an ongoing series on seminal cases in American law. The United States Supreme Court is — as its name suggests — the supreme law of the land. To torture a Harry Truman aphorism ...

Eighty years ago, Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that decision are still with us today. Fred Korematsu in 1983. On ...

Making the drive from Los Angeles with her friends, 19-year-old Sydney Takeda didn’t know what would be waiting for her at the Manzanar National Historic Site, where 1 of the 10 incarceration camps ...

Dale Minami, a lawyer known for overturning the landmark Korematsu v. United States case that reinforced Japanese internment during World War II, spoke to students in Taper Hall Tuesday. (Andrea Klick ...

User-Created Clip by CSPANCLASSROOM November 10, 2015 2015-11-10T01:00:28-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/266/20151110010753001_hd.jpgPeter Irons and Karen ...

The basic facts of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld President Franklin Roosevelt's wartime internment of Japanese-Americans, are well-known but still ...

Legal scholars have long considered Korematsu v. United States as a part of the “anticanon” — a collection of high-profile Supreme Court cases that were wrongly decided — alongside Plessy v. Ferguson ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu discuss the legacy of the Korematsu v. United States case and decision. Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu discuss the ...

If there is a silver lining to the Supreme Court's summer ruling in Trump v. Hawaii, which upheld President Donald Trump's ban on travel from predominantly Muslim ...