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 ...

Pilgrimages to the Manzanar National Historic Site have become annual events for those trying to pay respects to the 110,000 people of Japanese descent who were interned in "relocation centers ...

Ferguson, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and Korematsu v. United States as an enduring shame. The Muslim ban was the first major piece of policy Trump enacted, and since its inception, ...

Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu discuss the legacy of the Korematsu v. United States case and decision. Report Video Issue. Transcript type. Filter by Speaker. Search this transcript ...

Ad Policy. Fred Korematsu in 1983. (Gary Fong / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court issued one of its most notorious decisions: Korematsu v.United States.

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In one of its most widely condemned decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the exclusion orders in Korematsu v.United States.Justice Hugo Black argued for a 6-3 majority that the exclusion ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Korematsu v. United States, the court ruled 6-3 on Dec. 18, 1944, that the U.S. government had the right to exclude and detain 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II because of national ...

The most famous of those rulings — often reviled — was the 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States. The lawyers did so in a letter last week to U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., ...