Korematsu v. United States

Unlike COVID-19 restrictions designed to protect public health, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII was based on racism and xenophobia.
Experts call it ironic that the court finally spoke out against decades-old bias in a case permitting current discrimination.
Muslim activists are comparing the Supreme Court's decision to past rulings that have sanctioned discrimination against African- and Japanese-Americans.
A civil rights center named for Fred Korematsu, one of the Americans who fought back during that period, now hopes the courts stand up.