Koreatsu V. US Internment Case

"As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color." —Fred Korematsu (1983) What Bitter disappointment know the country you were born in condemn you to a hostile exile, just by the appearance of your skin. Korematsu v. U.S. (1944) is the only case involving race-based distinctions applying the stints scrutiny standard where the court has upheld the restrictive law. To increase the grievances of the case I think public opinion and political exigencies attributed to the high court decision to the obviously unconstitutional internment of Japanese, Italian, and German American citizens during World War II. …show more content…
mainland and the American government was worried that Americans of Japanese descent might aid the enemy. In respond to the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066, forcing many West Coast Japanese and Japanese Americans into internment camps. Fred Korematsu, a Japanese American, claimed to be Mexican-American to avoid being interned, but was later arrested and convicted of violating an executive order. More than two-thirds of those confined to internment camps were U.S. citizens. Korematsu challenged his conviction in the courts saying that Congress, the President, and the military authorities did not have the power to issue the relocation orders and that he was being discriminated against based on his race. The