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FRED KOREMATSU AND JAPANESE INTERNMENT DURING WWII Of the 120,000 Japanese Americans subject to relocation, exclusion and internment during World War II only 12 resisted. Fred Korematsu was one of them. Those who willingly complied with the military order to leave their homes, businesses, and way of life complied not...

Donald Trump’s First Amendment Defense Federal criminal defendants seeking precedent can make unlikely bedfellows. Charlotte Anita Whitney, a member of the Communist Labor Party, was convicted under the California Criminal Syndicalism Act for allegedly helping to establish an organization that advocated the violent overthrow of the government. Whitney argued that...

113,000 Japanese Americans were arrested by their government during Japanese internment. One took his case all the way to the Supreme Court. And while it took over forty years to obtain justice, he won. This is the story of Fred Korematsu.