In Korematsu v. US (1944), the Supreme Court ruled that in a time of great “emergency and peril,” the internment of Japanese Americans was

In Korematsu v. United States (1944), the Supreme Court upheld the wartime exclusion order targeting Japanese Americans, accepting the government’s claim that it was justified by the emergency. The Court therefore treated the policy as constitutional at the time, even though the decision is now widely condemned.

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