When President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Friday barring Syrian refugees from entering the United States and banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, protests ...

The Supreme Court finally took the step of overruling Korematsu vs. United States last week, its 1944 decision upholding the mass removal of Japanese Americans from their homes along the West Coast ...

Karen Korematsu, daughter of Fred T. Korematsu and founder and executive cirector of The Fred T. Korematsu Institute. Submitted photo The Robert H. Jackson Center is pleased to present “The Fight for ...

He had just changed his name and undergone plastic surgery to alter his eyes. All he wanted was to be left alone. On May 30, 1942, Fred Korematsu was waiting for his girlfriend on a street corner in ...

Karen Korematsu, civil rights advocate, speaking at the Robert H. Jackson Center Tuesday. Karen Korematsu is the daughter of Fred Korematsu who challenged the imprisonment in internment camps of ...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010 signed a bill declaring January 30 as “Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution,” honoring a little-known activist who stood his ground in the face ...

Legal scholars have long considered Korematsu v. United States as a part of the “anticanon” — a collection of high-profile Supreme Court cases that were wrongly decided — alongside Plessy v. Ferguson ...

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In the wake of protests at Supreme Court justices' homes over the prospect of abortion regulation and restrictions potentially being returned to state governments, former Reagan Justice Department ...

For Karen Korematsu, the Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday to overturn a long-criticized opinion involving her father’s internment during World War II should have been a happy moment. In a 5-4 ...