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The Japanese Internment was actually upheld by the Supreme Court as constitutional in Korematsu but later rejected and overturned.
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Korematsu was charged with evading the exclusion order. His personal conviction was overturned decades later, but the Supreme Court decision upholding the exclusion order has not been overturned.
I confess a fondness for Jackson's dissent. It is to the point and modest.
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Originally Posted by Jackson
My duties as a justice, as I see them, do not require me to make a military judgment as to whether General DeWitt's evacuation and detention program was a reasonable military necessity. I do not suggest that the courts should have attempted to interfere with the Army in carrying out its task. But I do not think they may be asked to execute a military expedient that has no place in law under the Constitution. I would reverse the judgment and discharge the prisoner.
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/htm..._0214_ZD2.html