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He was fiercely opposed to internment. he thought it was wrong. he fought it. his case went all the way to the supreme court, and fred korematsu in the sup court lost. they cited real military dangers presented by the government to justify the internment policy. what peter irons later discovered in those dusty boxes of government documents years later is that there was no such clear determination of military dangers that justified locking up all japanese americans. the justice department, in fact, at the time, had all sorts of contrary evidence. they had all these internal reports. they had in...

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 korematsu's 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 citing that case, saying it was totally irrelevant to the ban ruling today. but then he said from here ...

In this case there is nothing secret about the animus that underlies that policy. in korematsu, they had to lie about it. it took decades to dig up court ev. there is nothing sret about the animus here. nobody has held that evidence from the conservative majority of the supreme court, they just today chose to ignore it. and this is the supreme court. so there is no appealing this decision. there is no appeal, at least within the court system. there is no secret history of prejudice here for a new peter irons to find evidence of in an old misfileddusty box that he can then take to korematsu and...

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 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 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 camps, the reasoning that justified them, it was finally decades later exposed as a sham. the justic...

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 korematsu's 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 still technically on the books. sotomayor cited that in her dissent. that led justice roberts to denou...