What was korematsu argument

In Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court held that the wartime internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional. Reproduction courtesy of the Library of Congress. Published in December All rights reserved. Check local listings. Reproduction courtesy of the Library of Congress Korematsu v. Put another way: In order to rule against school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education , the court had to overrule Plessy v. Ferguson because it legalized racial segregation.

In contrast, it is not necessary for the court to overturn Korematsu to uphold the travel ban in Trump v. The three men were petitioning to re-open their cases against the U. United States. In the Korematsu decision, the court ruled that the U.

Today, the Korematsu v. United States decision has been rebuked but was only finally overturned in The Court ruled in a 6 to 3 decision that the federal government had the power to arrest and intern Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu under Presidential Executive Order on February 19, , issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt directed the military to isolate any citizen, if needed, from a mile-wide coastal area from Washington state to California and extending inland into southern Arizona.

Korematsu was arrested for going into hiding in Northern California after refusing to go to an internment camp. Korematsu appealed his conviction through the legal system, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in October The court had heard a similar case in , Hirabayashi v.