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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, but in 2011, the u.s. justice department officially made a formal concession of error in the internment camp's case. the u.s. government formally acknowledging that the government's defense of the internment camps, the gover...

And not on a racial basis. in 1944, after the policy was already i effect, the war department had documents in which they were bluntly asserting that the supposed military justification for rounding up japanese americans was bunk. this was still during the war. quote, the vast mass of fifth column folklore, insofar as concrete evidence is concerned is almost entirely baseless. that was the war department during 1944. so here's the problem. here's the legal problem. japanese americans who were rounded up and put in these internment camps because of fdr's executive order, they challenged the int...

You made a point yesterday of talking about your four heroes, and one of them was justice jackson. i went back to look at some of his cases, i just know of him, do not know much about him. i found his dissent in this case which i thought was fascinating because his dissent was not that long. but it had an impact, it was profound. the question, of course, was the military orders in the united states on the treatment of japanese americans. fred korematsu was caught up in it and basically told he had no choice, he had to go off to the internment camp and that whole medical, part and become a mili...