USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Korematsu legal team argued that Executive Order 9066 was a violation of Korematsu’s ____
A
13th Amendment rights
B
14th Amendment rights
C
15th Amendment rights
D
16th Amendment rights
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -He called the exclusion order “the legalization of racism” that violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. He compared the exclusion order to the “abhorrent and despicable treatment of minority groups by the dictatorial tyrannies which this nation is now pledged to destroy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Korematsu was arrested and convicted of violating the order. He responded by arguing that Executive Order 9066 violated the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution because habeas corpus had not been suspended, and his right to libery was being infringed by military action without due process of law.

Detailed explanation-3: -United States decision has been rebuked but was only finally overturned in 2018. The Court ruled in a 6 to 3 decision that the federal government had the power to arrest and intern Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu under Presidential Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Detailed explanation-4: -The order suspended the writ of habeas corpus and denied Japanese Americans their rights under the Fifth Amendment, which states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process.

Detailed explanation-5: -Korematsu v. United States (1944) | PBS. In Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court held that the wartime internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional.

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