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They were in korematsu. in this case there is nothing secret about the animus that underlies that policy. in korematsu, they had to lie to the court about it. it took decades to dig up evidence. in the muslim ban case, there's nothing secret here. there is nothing secret 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 ...

So, what happens next? joining us now is anthony 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 dissent. >> let me ask you, the first iteration of the ban was successfully challenged by the aclu. they've revised it twice since. is this permanently the law of the 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. it took us decades ...

On the government's contention that there were clear findings of a military necessity that justified that policy. there were no such clear findings. that court ruling was based on a false premise. and the documents proving that were discovered 40 years later, and fred korematsu did decide to go back to court, and this time he won. he got his conviction overturned. the judge in his case told the courtroom that the government's position was, quote, tantamount to a confession of error. it still took a long time, b in 2011, the u.s. justice department officially made a formal concession of error i...

Defeat changed him. for decades, he had been living quietly in a small house, refusing to talk about the case with anyone, even his 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 fred korematsu. 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. korematsu was a quiet man. he sat there and read the papers in silence. after 20 minutes passed, he turned to him and said, would you be my lawye...

It was written last year in "the washington post," quote, the lawyer had stumbled across the papers in a government storeroom. secret admissions from u.s. officials that a supposed matter of national security was not what it appeared. the executive order led to abrupt expulsions, mass detentions. and the persecution of thousands on the basis of their ethnicity. peter irons couldn't do it by himself. he stepped out of a taxi in california in 1982, and walked up to the home of peter korematsu. peter irons knew the man only by reputation. ng kematsu h bn turned down that led to the imprisonment o...