Question 5 • EAP-Virginia and US History B CR
In Korematsu v. United States (1944), the Supreme Court upheld the wartime exclusion of Japanese Americans, accepting the government’s claim that it was necessary for military security. The ruling treated constitutional protections as yielding to the asserted emergency, so B, “could be waived in a time of emergency such as war,” is the best choice. The Court did not say the Fourteenth Amendment was void or that Korematsu was exempt from military obligations.
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