Posted on 06/26/2018 1:56:40 PM PDT by NRx
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 Court ruled it was a "military necessity" to detain people of Japanese descent during the war and argued the order was not based on race.
Chief Justice John Roberts made it clear he disagrees with this assessment in the majority opinion on Trump's travel ban.
"The forcible relocation of US citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority," Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.
"Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and — to be clear — 'has no place in law under the Constitution,'" Roberts added.
This was partially in response to the dissenting opinion from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which contended the ruling on Trump's travel ban has "stark parallels" with the "reasoning" behind the decision made regarding Korematsu.
"Today, the Court takes the important step of finally overruling Korematsu," Sotomayor added. "This formal repudiation of a shameful precedent is laudable and long overdue. But it does not make the majority's decision here acceptable or right."
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Could this be a setup to reparations? Japanese sue based upon SCOTUS opinion. Blacks sue on it as well.
My father (b.1935) was fingerprinted during the war, as his family had German names, though they were here 75-100 yrs already.
The Japanese suffered for the 1-2% of their ethnic brethren who may have had sympathetic allegiance to Japan.... Of course..., there was also a substantial number of "Americans" who would attack any Oriental looking citizens in retaliation for Pearl Harbor, so there were other factors as well!
All in all, not our finest hour as we safely view it nearly 70 years later!!!
> “Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and — to be clear — ‘has no place in law under the Constitution,’” Roberts added.”
I would bet the vast majority of Americans of 1944 if alive today would tell Roberts to stick it where the Sun don’t shine.
There is a principle called “In Extremis” meaning at the point of death, in which all the procedures and protocols of life and business respecting normalcy are set aside, abandoned, substituted with emergency actions necessary for survival.
Roberts’s life has been too soft, too cushy, now blatantly evident, on full display, for him to write anything of what 1944 America was experiencing.
Roberts is the type of asshat who would obstruct the shooting of a soda machine to fetch a dime to make a call to report an incoming nuclear attack a la Doctor Strangelove. He’s an embarrassment.
The lesson to be learned here is that if you want to violate the Constitutional rights of a minority group, just have a Democrat president do it.
Good point.
agree!
A friend’s father was made to serve his Army stint in the Pacific Theater of Operations because his parents immigrated from Germany.
Joe DiMaggio’s father was an Italian immigrant fisherman in San Francisco.
For the duration of the war the US government impounded his fishing boat.
They were afraid he’d link up with U-boats lurking offshore.
Fort Meade, home of the NSA, the puzzle palace.
Not many people realize that it was an interment center during the war:
Of Italians and Germans...!
Gosh, I wonder why so few people know that, eh..?
Good Grief! Does the MENTALITY OF WAR escape these people?
These asses would suck on their Constitutional thumbs while the United States is overthrown and its institutions ransacked and demolished.
What good is a US Constitution if there is no United States?
“Johnny, don’t forget to brush your teeth before you go to bed.”
“Mom, Johnny is dead, he stopped breathing.”
“Well just so long as he brushes his teeth.”
The biggest reason why Italians and Germans weren’t rounded up was that the Nazi and Italian fascists didn’t use kamikaze attacks as a military strategy.
Wow, I didn’t know of that spy ring.
Very, very interesting.
I’m going to read that book FOR SURE.
Thank you.
My father worked on the Manhattan project, and his name was as German as could be. I wonder what kind of investigations he had to go through? I'm sure it was a lot more than fingerprinting.
There HAD to be stories.
Pretty amazing what your forebearers did.
The Japanese were interned long before the kamikaze attacks started.
Most of the Japanese in Hawaii were NOT interned at all——most of the Mainland ones were.
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