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beanpot and rydra_wong and synecdochic:
The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN lj to spread the fun.
Here's one I do NOT agree with at all. I'd always been a bit fascinated by World War II, but this decision troubled me on a really deep level: Korematsu v. United States
In a time when the very people we were fighting were rounding up people based on their race, the United States did the same damn thing back home, interning those of Japanese-descent on the west coast into camps. (Executive order 9066)
The Supreme Court ruled that the executive order was constitutional and that the threat of espionage outweighed the individual rights of Fred Korematsu and other Japanese-Americans. The majority opinion also stated that such action by the government was not racist. Korematsu himself was convicted for evading the internment, and the decision has never been explicitly overturned.
beanpot and rydra_wong and synecdochic:The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN lj to spread the fun.
Here's one I do NOT agree with at all. I'd always been a bit fascinated by World War II, but this decision troubled me on a really deep level: Korematsu v. United States
In a time when the very people we were fighting were rounding up people based on their race, the United States did the same damn thing back home, interning those of Japanese-descent on the west coast into camps. (Executive order 9066)
The Supreme Court ruled that the executive order was constitutional and that the threat of espionage outweighed the individual rights of Fred Korematsu and other Japanese-Americans. The majority opinion also stated that such action by the government was not racist. Korematsu himself was convicted for evading the internment, and the decision has never been explicitly overturned.
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