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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 ...

The nominee pointed to overturned Supreme Court rulings, such as in the case Korematsu v. United States which upheld Japanese internment during World War II, as possible examples. Durbin on Thursday ...

Today marks 80 years since the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of orders resulting in the mass internment of Japanese Americans in Korematsu v.

Today marks 80 years since the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of orders resulting in the mass internment of Japanese Americans in Korematsu v.

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.

The court’s Korematsu v. United States opinion, written by Justice Hugo Black and issued one week before Christmas 1944, recounts the facts. In short, the commanding general of the U.S. Army’s western ...

Shen’s very first oil painting is now Adams House’s newest portrait on display: a portrait of Fred Korematsu, the Japanese-American civil rights hero and plaintiff in the famed 1944 Supreme ...

The Supreme Court’s decision in Korematsu v. United States (1944), upholding the forced evacuation of American citizens of Japanese descent from their homes for no reason other than their ancestry, ...

In the landmark Supreme Court case Korematsu v. U.S., the civil rights icon challenged the order that created internment camps—and lost. Here's why the case remains significant today.

In his remarks on March 15, Chen traced the history of Korematsu v. United States and related cases—including Hirabayashi v. US, a US Supreme Court decision upholding a curfew for Japanese ...