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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Exactly, War is hell
I could see a court ruling today that the Atomic weapons should not have been dropped on Japan because they were directed at a single race of people.
My wife’s grandfather was German and earned his citizenship by joining the military and fighting in the Spanish American War. During WWI his family’s house was burned down. He was fired from his job and the family nearly starved to death including my wife’s mother who was a toddler at the time. After the war they were able to move to another community and start over.
My wife’s grandfather loved the United States and would not allow German to be spoken in the house. The dark period was never spoken of either.
The people who did this to the family were provoked by propaganda that came directly from government sources. Anyone who objected was detained or worse. Somehow liberals do not ever remember this or the actions taken against Germans and Italians during WWII. It does not quite fit the narrative.
It's not considered an invasion to those who support overrunning this country with 3rd worlders.
Whats even more disturbing about that, is that approximately 50% of the country believes it's a good thing to bust open the borders...and that number will continue to grow unless we regain control of our immigration policy.
The 2016 election was the 1st step. The 2018 election is the next, critical step.
No, it was based on War a concept missed on this thread. Ever heard of Andersonville?
We today have Citizens that would gladly join an invasion force to over throw Trump and you all know it. Citizenship requires loyalty not birthright.
My uncle worked on the Manhattan project at Oak Ridge during WW2. He worked for Eastman Kodak.
Really?
You need to QUIT listening to Liberal Lies.
Since when?
Not Citizenship as a noun, a verb.
Are you from that area?
We’re in big trouble if we ever go to war with China.
The mob protected our Eastern ports, they hated Mussolini with a passion, and the US Government took advantage of that.
I thought it was, The future's uncertain and the end is always near.
Basis of citizenship.
Those interned were Japanese colonists.
They sent their kids back to Japan to be educated. I am sorry that offends some people.
There were a lot of children at those internment camps.
Very very rare that any of them had the money to send their kids back. Most were middle class shop owners and farmers like my late mother-in-law.
Read up on the Niihau incident.
Part of what is not brought up is that the Japanese had been colonizing the west coast of the Americas for decades. They were colonists not immigrants, loyal to the Empire of Japan.
Most of the Italians and Germans came over long before their respective regimes came to power. And they were still regarded with suspicision and with good reason.
Let me give you a number for comparison.
56.
That is how many Chinese POW's were left alive after the Surrender of Japan.
Not 56 thousand. Not 56 hundred. Just 56.
That was the culture their parents came from.
We were not fighting the fuzzy bunnies.
Democrats NEVER should have put Japanese citizens in internment camps... One more shame democrats should bow their heads about - IF democrats were capable of shame... (which they’re not capable of...)
The first born son was usually the one sent back to show loyalty to the Empire.
They acted much the same way the British did in their colonies. They retained their allegiance to the Empire. It was a colonization no matter what picture they tried to paint on it later.
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