Source: Reason
by Damon Root
“The basic facts of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld President Franklin Roosevelt’s wartime internment of Japanese-Americans, are well-known but still worth a sketch. That is because the case serves as an all-too-timely warning about how judicial deference to executive power has warped American law.” (10/23/25)