“The children of Japanese-Americans whose internment during World War II was upheld by the infamous Supreme Court ruling Korematsu v. United States are stepping into a new legal battle over whether the military can indefinitely detain American citizens. Writing that their parents ‘experienced first-hand the injustice resulting from a lack of searching judicial scrutiny,’ the children of Fred Korematsu and other Japanese-Americans who were interned filed a brief on Monday in support of a lawsuit against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/ndaa-lawsuit_n_2339749.html
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