Question

In the Supreme Court’s decision in Korematsu v. United States, the court said that Korematsu

Answer 1

Korematsu v. United States was a Supreme Court case that was decided on December 18, 1944, at the end of World War II. It involved the legality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered many Japanese-Americans to be placed in internment camps during the war.

Answer 2

The events of December 7th 1941 when the Japanese attacked the Pearl harbor and the report of the first Roberts Commissions resulted in the proclamation of the Executive order 9066 by President Roosevelt on February 19,1942 authorizing the War Department to create military areas from which any or all Americans might be excluded, and to provide for the necessary transport, lodging, and feeding of persons displaced from such areas. The order was further issued with the power of ordering Japanese Americans into Internment camps during World war II regardless of their citizenship.  This involved the enforced resettlement of Japanese American citizens, living primarily on the West Coast, from their homes into internment camps in various states across the U.S. Fred T. Korematsu, an American citizen of Japanese descent, refused to comply with the government and was arrested but appealed his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Supreme Court on December 18th 1944, declared that Korematsu was not guilty in the eyes of law for having convicted for something that is not considered a crime. His pledge for consists merely of being present in the state whereof he is a citizen, near the place where he was born, and where all his life he has lived. The Supreme Court’s decision was Kormatsu by a winning vote of 6 to 3.