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Koramatsu in the supreme 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 intelligence documents. they had findings from within the war department that totally disputed this contention they were maintaining p...

When they withheld all of that contrary evidence from the government's own files about the wobbliness of this contention that there was some military necessity that was undergirding the policy. they didn't think there was any such policy. they said there was no consensus, but the government lied and said there was a consensus. that order was signed in 1942. over 100,000 japanese americans were locked up. it wasn't until later that peter irons found those documents in dusty, misfiled, mislabeled boxes in the justice department. when he came across the documents in 1982, he came across the fact ...

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...

German-americans and italian-americans didn't all get put into internment camps during world war ii, right? they weren't rounded up, the germans and italians in this country. of the axis powers, it was only the japanese-americans that got put in internment camps en masse in world war ii. why was that? why was it just them? in 1982, a legal historian lawyer named peter irons was going through boxes of government documents. he was researching the origins of that world war ii policy in which the u.s. government locked up japanese americans. much to his surprise, peter irons stumbled upon a whole ...

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 ...