FDR Solicitor General Lied to Supreme Court about Japanese Internment
31st May 2011
In Korematsu v. United States (1944), the U.S Supreme Court, packed to the hilt with 8 justices appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, upheld FDR’s notorious Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced internment of Japanese-Americans as a matter of “military urgency” during World War II. It’s an ugly decision and the full story is even worse. As The Los Angeles Times reports, Neal Katyal, the acting solicitor general for the Obama administration, has admitted that one of his predecessors, FDR’s Solicitor General Charles Fahy, deliberately misled the Supreme Court in the case.
Well, he was a Democrat.