Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu discuss the heart of the 1944 Supreme Court case Korematsu V. United States, in which the court ruled 6-3 that Japanese internment camps were necessary for the ...

Ad Policy. Fred Korematsu in 1983. (Gary Fong / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court issued one of its most notorious decisions: Korematsu v.United States.

In Korematsu v. United States, the court ruled 6-3 on Dec. 18, 1944, that the U.S. government had the right to exclude and detain 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II because of national ...

This is the 11th part of an ongoing series on seminal cases in American law. The United States Supreme Court is — as its name suggests — the supreme law of the land. To torture a Harry Truman aphorism ...

Korematsu v. United States was a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision made in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It established that the U.S. government could intern Japanese ...

Legal scholars have long considered Korematsu v. United States as a part of the “anticanon” — a collection of high-profile Supreme Court cases that were wrongly decided — alongside Plessy ...

About two-thirds of them were Japanese-Americans who were born in the United States. Korematsu appealed his conviction through the legal system, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in ...

The most famous of those rulings — often reviled — was the 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States. The lawyers did so in a letter last week to U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., ...

Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu discuss the legacy of the Korematsu v. United States case and decision. Report Video Issue. Transcript type. Filter by Speaker. Search this transcript ...

Eighty years ago, Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that decision are still with us today. On December 18th, 1944, the ...