The Washington Post, October 10th, 2003
THE NAME Fred Korematsu first appeared at the U.S. Supreme Court during one of the darker chapters of its history. Mr. Korematsu, then a 22-year-old American citizen of Japanese descent, refused to be interned as part of the World War II detention of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. Prosecuted and convicted, he challenged the internment order, and the high court -- in the now-infamous case that bears Mr. Korematsu's name -- upheld it, citing the deference courts owe to military authorities in a time of war. Decades later, Mr. Korematsu's conviction was thrown out and he was awarded...
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