[ad_1] Fred Korematsu refused to obey the wartime order to leave his home and report to a relocation camp for Japanese Americans. He was arrested and convicted. After losing in the Court of Appeals, he appealed to the United States Supreme Court, challenging the constitutionality of the deportation order.Korematsu asked the Supreme Court of the […]
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[ad_1] How did Executive Order 9066 violate the Constitution? The internment of “all persons of Japanese ancestry” violated the clause that provides equal protection of the laws. This violated the clause stating that no law shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property. What are some modern day examples of how the bill of […]
[ad_1] What was the key conflict in the Korematsu case? In Korematsu’s case, the Court accepted the U.S. military’s argument that the loyalties of some Japanese Americans resided not with the United States but with their ancestral country, and that because separating “the disloyal from the loyal” was a logistical impossibility, the internment order had […]