Exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 7 59. Since row against weighed. Quite often, and very famous decisions, are ones that corked took that were quite unpopular. Let us go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspan and the National Constitution centers landmark cases. Tonight, we are going to be examining a 1944 war powers case of the Supreme Court. It is the story of korematsu v. United states. Aaa iaea detained through the course of the war. Mr. Korematsu said that was wrong. We have two people helping us learn the story. Peter irons is the civil rights attorney and editor of ten books including justice at war, the story of the japanese american internment cases. In the course of researching his book on this case, he found th
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 this is not something that 40, 50, 70 years later we were saying that was a mistake back then but they had their reason for it, they had no reason at the time except to uphold what they thought was a patriotic duty. For the record, i want to get some of this on the screen so people can have the reference. First of all, the chief justice at the time was hare land fisk stone . Hare land fisk stone. He was appointed by herbert hoover. He was a republican but he was he wouldnt be a republican today because he was, in fact, one of the great chief justices weve had. There were also a number of other names that have become famous to people who dont even know much about the court. You mentioned william o. Douglas. Frank murphy and robert jackson. 7 of the 9 members with the exception of Justice Jackson and justice stone had been appointed by franklin roosevelt. They were the new deal justices. When roosevelt threatened to pack the court in
Historic decisions. Arguments number 18, row against weight. , it was quite an popular. Through few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people, who stick together because they believe in the rule of law. Susan good evening and welcome to cspan and the National Constitution centers landmark cases. Tonight we will be examining a 1944 war powers case before the Supreme Court. It is the story of korematsu versus the United States. Fred korematsu was the japaneseamerican who challenged the right of the government to forcibly detain people during world war ii. You may know a bit about this history, American History during world war ii. Many japaneseamericans were gathered. 120,000 by some estimates. They were detained through the course of the war. Fred korematsu said that that was not right and took it all the way to the Supreme Court. We will learn more about that case. Lets introduce you to the two people who wi
Historic decisions. Arguments number 18, row against weight. , it was quite an popular. Through few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people, who stick together because they believe in the rule of law. Susan good evening and welcome to cspan and the National Constitution centers landmark cases. Tonight we will be examining a 1944 war powers case before the Supreme Court. It is the story of korematsu versus the United States. Fred korematsu was the japaneseamerican who challenged the right of the government to forcibly detain people during world war ii. You may know a bit about this history, American History during world war ii. Many japaneseamericans were gathered. 120,000 by some estimates. They were detained through the course of the war. Fred korematsu said that that was not right and took it all the way to the Supreme Court. We will learn more about that case. Lets introduce you to the two people who wi
There was evidence of espionage, that it was absolutely false. The fbi had found no evidence to support it. They had all agreed there was no evidence to support this. He demanded, he said it is highly unfair to this racial minority that these lies about them in an official publication go on corrected. The solicitor general in 1994, he stood up before the Supreme Court and said, standing behind every word in light of the military report, claimed there had been asked of espionage and acts of espionage and sabotage. We found these documents, me and other researchers. We put together a legal team in san francisco, portland, seattle, where the three cases started, and filed suits under a provision that means you can go back to court even if after you have served your sentence, even then, you can if you have evidence the government has committed misconduct. In all three cases, the judges agreed the government had lied to the Supreme Court. So they vacated them. The decision and fred koremats