California on Thursday will observe Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, remembering the shipyard welder who challenged the constitutionality of the incarceration of Japanese ...

A constitutional law professor weighs in on the legal battles sparked by President Donald Trump’s controversial executive ...

President Franklin Roosevelt used the act to justify internment camps for people of Japanese, German and Italian descent during World War Two. President Harry Truman continued to use the act until ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

Roosevelt’s executive order authorizing the incarceration ... Eventually, most were sent to relocation centers, also known as ...

By Richard Sandomir Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, whose memoir about living as a child in an internment ... Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which he signed in the aftermath of the Japanese attack ...

Roosevelt uprooted American citizens of Japanese ancestry and sent them to massive internment camps. Imagine what an angry vengeful administration under Trump can do. Deportation is the least of ...