Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu discuss the two central questions before the Court in Korematsu v. United States, and the 6-3 decision that Executive Order 9066 was lawful.

Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu discuss the heart of the 1944 Supreme Court case Korematsu V. United States, in which the court ruled 6-3 that Japanese internment camps were necessary for the ...

Korematsu then asked the United States Supreme Court to hear his case. Although it was glaringly obvious that the Executive Order was based on race, on December 18, 1944, a divided Court ruled, in a 6 ...

The Supreme Court finally took the step of overruling Korematsu vs. United States last week, its 1944 decision upholding the mass removal of Japanese Americans from their homes along the West ...

The Korematsu court unequivocally determined that the internment of Japanese citizens did not implicate “racial prejudice” (and that if it had, it would have been a “simple” case).

United States. Justice Hugo Black argued for a 6-3 majority that the exclusion orders were a necessary outgrowth of the president’s war powers and justified by the situation at hand.

About two-thirds of them were Japanese-Americans who were born in the United States. Korematsu appealed his conviction through the legal system, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in ...

United States, which has been a stain on this court and this country since it was wrongly decided, in 1944. Fred Korematsu, who was born in California in 1919, challenged the mass internment of ...

Finally, the dissent invokes Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). Whatever rhetorical advantage the dissent may see in doing so, Korematsu has nothing to do with this case.

Viewed by many constitutional scholars as one of the high court's worst mistakes, the 1944 ruling in Korematsu vs. United States drew stinging dissent from Justice Robert Jackson, who wrote that ...

United States, upholding a provision of Roosevelt’s executive order as constitutional. In the court’s decision, Justice Hugo Black wrote that “Korematsu was not excluded from the Military ...

Fred Korematsu, the civil rights hero who crusaded against the United States' internment of the Japanese in the 1940s, is the subject of the Jan. 30 Google doodle. The digital tribute honors ...