Also in today’s 5-4 SCOTUS ruling upholding Trump’s controversial travel ban, the conservative majority on the court also overruled Korematsu v. United States which allowed Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt to put American citizens of Japanese descent into internment camps:
Supreme Court holds "Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and—to be clear—“has no place in law under the Constitution.”
— Jonathan H. Adler (@jadler1969) June 26, 2018
Korematsu is officially overruled pic.twitter.com/kgYuesv6U5
— JP Schnapper-Casteras (@jpscasteras) June 26, 2018
And libs seem angry about it! We wonder if some of these instant-analysis tweets didn’t realize Korematsu got overturned as well:
Today's Supreme Court ruling repeats the mistakes of the Korematsu decision. It takes the government lawyers' flimsy national security excuse for the ban at face value, instead of taking seriously the president's own explanation for his actions.
— ACLU (@ACLU) June 26, 2018
Like the Korematsu decision that upheld Japanese internment camps or Plessy v. Ferguson that established "separate but equal," this decision will someday serve as a marker of shame. https://t.co/SLgzhSmbYS
— Keith Ellison (@keithellison) June 26, 2018
Those celebrating the decision in the #MuslimBan case need to remember that Korematsu is still “good law” according to SCOTUS. We will remember who stands on the fight side of history. #NoMuslimBanEver
— Abed A. Ayoub (@aayoub) June 26, 2018
No credit to the Supreme Court for overturning Korematsu while the Defense Department is literally preparing internment camps for undocumented immigrants on military bases.
— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) June 26, 2018
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1011615910854094848
Actually, the “painful irony” is that Millhiser literally has FDR as his Twitter background image:
FDR…the Democratic President who explicitly appointed 6 of the Justices who ruled for Japanese internment in Korematsu… is literally in your background picture.
I'd call that a "terrible, painful irony." pic.twitter.com/5OrRDpiqwA
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) June 26, 2018
Our heads our spinning.
More explanation on what the ruling means from attorney Gabriel Malor:
Of note, SCOTUS finally explicitly overrules Korematsu.
But then J. Sotomayor compares the reasoning of the maj. op. to the reasoning of Korematsu. Yikes.
— Friendly Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) June 26, 2018
By my count, seven justices are on record for overruling Korematsu, although there's no reason to believe J. Breyer and J. Kagan disagree. They just didn't have cause to write about it. pic.twitter.com/EatSkV1ihl
— Friendly Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) June 26, 2018
In the past four years, Korematsu has been held out by various commentators as a justification for an actual Muslim ban and as justification for putting Ebola victims in quarantine camps.
Hopefully, people will stop doing that.
— Friendly Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) June 26, 2018
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Related:
He's gonna BLOW! SCOTUS upholds Constitution in 'Travel Ban' decision and blue-check just CAN'T DEAL https://t.co/DYCJ6gUZfA
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 26, 2018
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