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The Supreme Court just quietly overturned a decision that upheld the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II as part of a ruling upholding President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban that primarily targets majority-Muslim countries. During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which led the US government to force more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent into detention camps. The decision overruled by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Korematsu v. United States, was centered around a man named Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American who refused to comply with the order. On December 18, 1944, the Supreme...

In a recent speech in Hawaii, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made some interesting predictions about two of the Supreme Court’s most notorious decisions: Kelo v. City of New London, which ruled that government can condemn private property and give it to other private owners to promote “economic development,” and Korematsu v. United States, which upheld the internment of over 100,000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during World War II. On Kelo, Scalia reiterated his 2011 prediction that the decision will eventually be overruled, stating that it “will not survive.” Kelo was a closely divided 5-4 decision (Scalia voted with the...

(Fifth in a series of ten. For other articles in this series, click on View all articles by John Armor on ChronWatch -- and "Blogs by this author.") The powers of the president were designed to be sufficient to lead the nation, and insufficient to dominate the nation. In the hands of a self-restrained leader such as the first president, George Washington, the extent of powers of the chief executive were not a potential problem. In the 20th century, both books and articles have decried the "imperial presidency." The thesis is that recent presidents have successfully claimed more power than...

Supreme Court rules in favor of U. of Michigan Admissions Policy