President Fred Korematsu's Case

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n February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive order granting the U.S. military the power to ban tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry to internment camps during the war. In defiance of the order, Fred Korematsu, an American-born citizen of Japanese descent, refused to leave his home in San Leandro, California. Duly convicted, he appealed, and in 1944 his case reached the Supreme Court. 6-3 majority on the Court upheld Korematsu's conviction. N Korematsu's case, the Court accepted the U.S. military's argument that the loyalties of some Japanese Americans resided not with the United States but with their ancestral country, and that because separating "the disloyal from the loyal" was a logistical
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