Former US Solicitor General Neal Katyal Argues Stop Repeating History in Ninth Circuit Travel Ban Case
Former U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal argues against the Travel Ban in his closing argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on December 7, 2017. Katyal reminds the court that Gordon Hirabayashi was convicted in this courthouse and what the government did to him in the name of national security did ...
ACLU: Trump’s Ban Repeats Travesty Against Japanese-Americans in World War II
Article is linked here. Trump’s Muslim Ban Repeats the Constitutional Travesty Committed Against Japanese-Americans in World War II By Cecillia Wang, Deputy Legal Director, ACLU DECEMBER 18, 2017 | 2:30 PM On Dec. 8, 2017, a lawyer for the U.S. government stood before a federal appeals court to defend President Donald Trump’s third attempt to ...
CNN: Obama invokes Nazi Germany in warning about today’s politics
Article available here. Obama invokes Nazi Germany in warning about today’s politics By Miranda Green, CNN Updated 2:11 PM ET, Fri December 8, 2017 Washington (CNN) – Former President Barack Obama urged voters this week to stay engaged in democracy, warning that complacency was responsible for the rise of Nazi Germany. “You have to tend to ...
UPDATE (Dec. 20): NYC Council approves Jan. 30 as Korematsu Day in perpetuity
UPDATE (Dec. 20): Today, the New York City Council passed Res. 792, naming January 30 Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution in perpetuity, starting January 30, 2018. See photos from today’s vote on Fred T. Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution NYC’s Facebook page and below. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FKorematsuDayNYC%2Fposts%2F139414666767358&width=500
Duckworth, Hirono, Takano to Introduce Bills to Prevent Repeat of Japanese American Incarceration
On the anniversary of the widely-condemned Korematsu Supreme Court decision that led to the incarceration of tens of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II, U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) announced that they will introduce the Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2017 to prevent similar civil and human rights travesties from happening on ...
OP-ED: Karen Korematsu in The Washington Post
My father resisted Japanese internment. Trump’s travel ban is just as unfair. We must not make the same mistake now that the United States did during World War II. By Karen Korematsu, Dec. 4, 2017 Read the op-ed here. At the beginning of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, now ...
UPDATE (Oct. 25) – Resolution to Recognize Fred T. Korematsu Day in the City of New York Moves Forward
UPDATE (Dec. 20): Today, the New York City Council passed Res. 792, naming January 30 Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution in perpetuity, starting January 30, 2018. On Wednesday, October 25, 2017, a hearing was held on a resolution to recognize Fred Korematsu’s birthday, January 30, as Fred T. Korematsu Day in the City of ...
Holly Yasui: Reflections on “No Muslim Ban Ever” Mobilization
Video of the rally linked here and below. By Holly Yasui I was invited by Deepa Iyer of The Center for Social Inclusion to speak at the “No Muslim Ban Ever” rally in Washington DC on October 18, the date it was scheduled to go into effect. It turns out that at the 11th ...
