Ferguson, Korematsu v. United States and Buck v. Bell. Each case is a blight in our nation’s legal history, and each resulted because the Supreme Court deviated from the Constitution’s text.

While Fred Korematsu’s conviction was eventually overturned, some argue that the principles at the foundation of the decision are still prevalent today.

Two of the three most infamous Supreme Court decisions were erased by events. The Civil War and postwar constitutional amendments effectively overturned Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which held ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor pushed Chief Justice John Roberts to declare: “Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history” ...

The Supreme Court finally took the step of overruling Korematsu vs. United States last week, its 1944 decision upholding the mass removal of Japanese Americans from their homes along the West ...

The day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 2525. Under the order, the federal government was empowered to apprehend and ...

Fred Korematsu, the Japanese American whose court case over his refusal to be interned during World War II went to the U.S.

Korematsu was later arrested and convicted of violating a military order. He was detained at the government-run concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Topaz, Utah, and appealed his case to ...

Korematsu, who unsuccessfully fought the order to be sent to a Japenese American internment camp during World War II, died Wednesday, March 30, 2005. He was 86.

Seventy years after the mass internment of Japanese Americans was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, the ugly ideas at the core of its decision are resurfacing.