Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson continues to break the fourth wall as the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. And she has made one thing plain: There are moments when she sees the majority ...

Constitutional law scholar Mark Kende claims that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's jurisprudence supports the Supreme Court's notorious decision in Korematsu v. United States.

He was a passionate defender of racial equality, and yet he voted to uphold the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans in Korematsu v. United States. Early in his career, he opposed government ...

The newest Justice is increasingly willing to condemn the actions of the conservative majority, even when that means breaking with her liberal colleagues.

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 case that upheld the legality of racial segregation; in Korematsu v. United States, which in 1944 affirmed the internment of Japanese Americans; in Bowers v.

In the 1944 case Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold the constitutionality of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

But last year’s decision in the Trump v. United States presidential immunity case showed this court unable to pull together the kind of consensus seen in previous separation-of-powers landmarks.

United States ruled 6-3 that Executive Order 9066 was constitutional “as a matter of military urgency,” ordering Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of ...

United States, handed down in 1944; and hundreds of years of slavery followed by decades of state-enforced racial segregation remain deeply harmful, anguished moments in our national history.

United States (1944), where the Court upheld the mass internment of Japanese Americans; Justice Robert H. Jackson warned in dissent that the decision sanctioned a principle that “lies about like ...