Case Study: Korematsu V. United States

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, is a United States Supreme Court case that experienced a unanimous decision that ended state segregation. The case brought the beginning of the American civil rights movement. BvBoE had a 9-0 vote to end federal tolerance of segregation and “separate but equal” ways, the case declared that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” BvBoE came back to the Fourteenth Amendment which states that there is equal protection under law to all citizens. The Supreme Court ruled the case as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause and/or the Fourteenth Amendment. I think that the Supreme Court made the right decision for this case because everyone that is a citizen of the United States of America should be granted …show more content…
United States is a Supreme Court case which held that the confinement of American citizens of the Japanese descent during the duration of World War II as constitutional. Korematsu is an American citizen of the Japanese decedents that refused to be kicked out of his own house and thrown into the internment camps, he was then convicted and appealed the lower court decision. When KvUS went through the supreme court the vote stood at a 6-3 majority, this became the cause that upheld Korematsu’s conviction. This case was a violation of the Fifth Amendment that states under a writ of habeas corpus, a person should be able to obtain relief from unlawful detention. In 1984 Korematsu’s ruling and conviction was overturned due to the United States Government supplying the case with false information. The 1944 decision remained the same, it declared constitutional. I think this court case is both right and wrong at the same time. I agree with the government on taking national security precautions but I do not agree with them on how they went about it. I feel that making all Japanese decedents go into camps was not the right way to protect the citizens, being that some were citizens

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