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 ...

The Supreme Court Tuesday overruled the 1944 ruling that upheld the World War II incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans as it also backed President Trump's right to limit travel to the United ...

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.

How a 1944 decision on Japanese internment affected the Supreme Court’s travel ban decision ...

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 ...

Korematsu then asked the United States Supreme Court to hear his case. Although it was glaringly obvious that the Executive Order was based on race, on December 18, 1944, a divided Court ruled, in a 6 ...

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., ...

The best criminal justice reporting tagged with "Korematsu v. United States.," curated by The Marshall Project.

Tomorrow marks 79 years since the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of orders resulting in the mass internment of Japanese Americans in Korematsu v.

Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu discuss the legacy of the Korematsu v. United States case and decision.

On December 18th, 1944, the Supreme Court issued one of its most notorious decisions: Korematsu v. United States. The plaintiff, Fred Korematsu, a twenty-five-year-old Japanese American man from ...