SOURCE: Time Magazine
6-26-18
tags: Supreme Court, Trump, Japanese internment, travel ban
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6-26-18
Supreme Court’s Travel-Ban Includes Surprise Ruling: Japanese Internment Was Wrong
Breaking Newstags: Supreme Court, Trump, Japanese internment, travel ban
In Tuesday’s majority opinion upholding President Donald Trump’s travel ban, the Supreme Court also overturned a long-criticized decision that had upheld the constitutionality of Japanese-American internment during World War II.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor had mentioned the 1944 case, Korematsu v. United States, in her dissent, arguing that the rationale behind the majority decision had “stark parallels” to Korematsu; in both cases, she argued, the government “invoked an ill-defined natiounal security threat to justify an exclusionary policy of sweeping proportion.”
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts argued that the case was not relevant to the travel ban, but went ahead and wrote that it is now overturned.
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