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Korematsu v. United States

A Supreme Court case that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, demonstrating the Court's willingness to defer to national security judgments during wartime.

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Jan 27, 2026
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Are there concentration camps in United states

has a documented history of running sites that historians and institutions explicitly call ""—most notably the incarceration of more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in barbed‑wire, government...

Jan 31, 2026
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How do historians define 'concentration camps' and which definitions apply to U.S. detention systems?

Historians treat "" as a descriptive category with multiple, historically rooted definitions—key recurring elements are mass detention of civilians, detention outside normal judicial process, targetin...

Jan 17, 2026

How have U.S. courts ruled on past presidential emergency measures that affected civil liberties (e.g., Ex parte Milligan, Korematsu)?

U.S. courts have played a mixed but decisive role in policing presidential emergency measures that impinge on civil liberties: at times they have struck down executive excess (Ex parte Milligan, Young...

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