In Korematsu v. US (1944), the Supreme Court ruled that in a time of great "energency and peril," the internment of Japanese Americans was

In Korematsu v. US (1944), the Supreme Court ruled that in a time of great "emergency and peril," the internment of Japanese Americans was constitutional. The case concerned the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of their citizenship.