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The Supreme Court upheld Japanese internment too.

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It's worth noting that Chief Justice Roberts formally repudiates the Korematsu decision here.

Justice Sotomayor writes, in her dissent, that while repudiating that "shameful precedent is laudable and long overdue," the majority "redeploys the same dangerous logic" for a new era.

Two more passages where Sotomayor unpacks the history of the Korematsu precedent in relation to this case.

As some readers appear to be confused about my tweet, let me be explicitly clear as I can:

1) The Korematsu court upheld Japanese internment in 1944.
2) This decision formally repudiates Korematsu.
3) In Sotomayor's words, this ruling deploys Korematsu's "same dangerous logic."

In 1944, Justice Jackson, who would later become the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, famously compared the Korematsu decision to a "loaded weapon" in his dissent.

Trump reached for that weapon -the Korematsu precedent- on live TV in 2015.

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That weapon has been disabled with today's decision, and Sotomayor warns a similar one has been set up in its place.

(That particular Justice Jackson quote is not in the opinion or dissent.)

There is a reason so many people are talking about the Korematsu decision - which upheld Japanese internment and was overturned today - with respect to today's ruling.

Read that history, and read today's opinion. courthousenews.com/wp-content/upl…

Here's my colleagues' write-up: courthousenews.com/trump-travel-b…