Korematsu Ruling News Today

Korematsu ruling of 1944, when they -- with the korematsu ruling, justified our incarcerati incarceration. the chief justice roberts called that a grave wrong. well, this is -- a muslim travel ban, too, is a grave wrong in the same sense. yet, they approved that, while overturning the korematsu. as if it is a sardonic mockery of what theyre doing. >> i want to ask you -- to interrupt -- a little bit about that. if you read the dissent, the justice takes issue with those who consider couthat. the...

For a clear national security purpose. they didnt have any clear national security purpose that justified that policy. it was actually based impermissibly on racial animus and the government hid that from the court when the court ruled on those camps. they lied to the court. they got away with it for decades, but it was finally exposed. that ruling for the internment camps, the reasoning that justified him, it was finally decades later exposed as a sham. the justices who dissented from the korem...

Case, the flawed case that upheld internment camps because of supposed national security concerns that the government lied to the court about. the revelation of those lies before today had already led to the overturning of fred korematsus original conviction and it led to a formal apology from the justice department for having lied to the court. but before today, the korematsu ruling was still technically on the books. sotomayor cited that in her dissent. that led rogers to denounce her for citi...

In a practical sense, because it was shown to be based on a literal lie. the government said those internment camps were necessary for a clear national security purpose. they didnt have any clear national security purpose that justified that policy. it was actually based impermissibly on racial animus and the government hid that from the court when the court upheld those camps. they lied to the court. they got away with it for decades, but it was finally exposed. that ruling for the internment c...

Dissent, and she read her dissent in court. at the apex of her argument, she cited the infamous korematsu case, the flawed case that upheld internment camps because of supposed national security concerns that the government lied tthe court about. the revelation of those lies before today had already led to the overturning of fred korematsus individual conviction and it led to a formal apology from the justice department for having lied to the court. but before today, the korematsu ruling was sti...