When President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Friday barring Syrian refugees from entering the United States and banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, protests ...

In today’s Supreme Court divided decision on the Trump administration’s travel ban, two Justices went where the bench seldom goes: the controversial World War II Korematsu case that upheld wartime ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - "Learning about people such as Fred Korematsu has proved how much of an unique and diverse country America is," said student Nicole Verdadero. These are the words that ...

In 1998, Fred Korematsu was a fragile reed of a man. But in the East Room of the White House, the septuagenarian stood up straight and tall as he heard President Clinton say, "Plessy, Brown, Parks ...

Legal scholars have long considered Korematsu v. United States as a part of the “anticanon” — a collection of high-profile Supreme Court cases that were wrongly decided — alongside Plessy v. Ferguson ...

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010 signed a bill declaring January 30 as “Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution,” honoring a little-known activist who stood his ground in the face ...

Fred Korematsu, the Japanese American whose court case over his refusal to be interned during World War II went to the U.S. Supreme Court and became synonymous with this nation’s agonized debate over ...

The Supreme Court finally took the step of overruling Korematsu vs. United States last week, its 1944 decision upholding the mass removal of Japanese Americans from their homes along the West Coast ...

Korematsu was born in Oakland in 1919, to parents who had immigrated from Japan 14 years earlier. Kakusaburo Korematsu and his wife Kotsui Aoki worked at a flower nursery while raising their four sons ...