Korematsu v U.S. (Worst Supreme Court Decision?)
Are US citizens whose decent is of a nation the U.S. is at War with a threat to America themselves? What Rights do American Citizens have in Wartime? Were Japanese Internment camps of “military necessity” in WWII in the USA for Japanese citizens? Would the Supreme Court allow Liberty (or justify “internment camps”? After Pearl Harbor was Attacked by 1942, F.D.R. Signed Executive Order 9066 allowing the military to move persons, about 120,000, of Japanese Ancestry to about 25 areas in the West from their homes. Facts of the case; (May, 1942) Fred Korematzu, 23, a Japanese American citizen, refused to be removed from his home and business, to a relocation center. He had plastic surgery on his eyes look different and said he was of Hawaiian and Spanish ancestry, and switched his name to Clyde Sarah. SCOTUS (Supreme Court 6-3 decision) decided with the government that detentions were of “military necessity” in 1944 and NOT based on race.