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  • Durbin Defends Enforcing SCOTUS Ruling That Upheld Japanese Internment In Attempted ‘Gotcha’ For Trump Nominee

    03/01/2025 8:07:00 AM PST · by Twotone · 34 replies
    The Federalist ^ | February 26, 2025 | Logan Washburn
    While trying to catch President Donald Trump’s solicitor general nominee in a “gotcha” moment, Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin apparently defended enforcement of the infamous Supreme Court ruling that upheld the internment of more than one hundred thousand Japanese Americans during World War II. “Let’s go back to Korematsu — describe for me that circumstance that you think relieved an official from obeying a court order,” Durbin said to solicitor general nominee Dean John Sauer. “As bad as it was, that court order was followed for years, was it not?” In Korematsu v. U.S., the Supreme Court upheld the internment of...
  • A new life at Seabrook Farms

    02/19/2006 7:13:29 AM PST · by Calpernia · 9 replies · 880+ views
    Today's Sunbeam ^ | Sunday, February 19, 2006 | By TRISH GRABER
    Sixty-four years ago today, a quick swipe of a pen by President Franklin D. Roosevelt forever changed the lives of tens of thousands of U.S. citizens. Two months after the Dec. 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering all Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast to move inland, fearing an uproar from their assumed loyalty to Japan. (snip) In 1988, President Ronald Reagan issued an apology for the wrongful imprisonment of the 120,000 American citizens. Those incarcerated were issued $20,000, meant to compensate their losses. (snip) For those living, Fuyuume called the payment a small-token...