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Would have turned 100 years old. he was born in oakland, california to japanese immigrant parents. when he was 23 years old, he refused to report to prison camp after the bombing of pearl harbor. fred korematsu, the court ruled against him in a landmark case 1944 claiming him in prison was not based on racism. this case over urned in 1983. korematsu took you have several causes including lobbying for compensation to japanese americans forced into labor camp. today at least three states are celebrating the fred korematsu's day. if you have a monumental americans, please tweet u us @velshiruhle.

Korematsu is widely viewed as a dead letter because it's been so widely repudiated by the court record, but now it is gone, as a supreme court precedent, which is great. just because the internment camps based on race other than the migrants on the border, that one line by chief justice roberts might make that a little harder, so, yay. check this out from sonia sotomayor today. in case you have not already seen what she said today, and she said it out loud, she read it from the bench, you should know this is what she said. quote, the united states of america is a nation built upon the promise ...

For a clear national security purpose. they didn't 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 korematsu ruling in 1944 over time have been proven correct. today the korematsu ruling finally went awa...

Romero, executive director of the aclu. mr. romero, thank you for being here. >> always great to see you. >> it's awkward to read supreme court dissents. >> it was amazing. if you're going to read anything, read that disseptemnt. >> let me ask you, the first iteration of the ban was accepted by the aclu. they've revised it twice since. is this permanently lava land? >> no. we're going to fight this tooth and nail for decades. just like we did for korematsu. we brought the case in 1941 and lost it in 1944. when you know something is wrong, even when a court upholds it, you keep fighting. so fir...

Small children, blaming himself for what the country had done to his people. it took two months and a phone call just to get a meeting with this man. now he sat across from the man, nervous, hoping that seeing incriminating documents the government had kept secret during his trial would convince him to fight again. it had taken irons two lette. korematsu was a quiet man. he sat there and listened and later said, would you be my lawyer? in the 1940s when he lost that case, the supreme court upheld internment camp for u.s. citizens on the basis of race. and they based that court ruling on the go...