What is Korematsu v. United States?
{{SCOTUSCase |Litigants=Korematsu v. United States |ArgueDateA=October 11 |ArgueDateB=12 |ArgueYear=1944 |DecideDate=December 18 |DecideYear=1944 |FullName=Fred Korematsu vs. United States |USVol=323 |USPage=214 |Citation=65 S. Ct. 193; 89 L. Ed. 194; 1944 U.S. LEXIS 1341 |Prior=Certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |Subsequent= |Holding=The exclusion order leading to [[Japanese American Internment]] was [[Constitutionality|constitutional]]. |SCOTUS=1943-1945 |Majority=Black |JoinMajority=Stone, Reed, Douglas, Rutledge, Frankfurter |Concurrence=Frankfurter |Dissent=Roberts |Dissent2=Murphy |Dissent3=Jackson |LawsApplied=[[Executive Order 9066]]; [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|U.S. Const. amend. V]] }} '''''Korematsu v. United States''''' '''{{ussc|323|214|1944}}''', was a [[List of landmark court decisions in the United States|landmark]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]]. It concerned the [[constitutionality]] of [[Commanding officer|military commanders]], under an [[executive order]] by the [[President of the United States|President]], which ordered [[Japanese American]]s into [[Japanese American internment|internment camps]] during [[World War II]].<ref name=kv.usCB>{{cite web |url=http://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/constitutional-law/constitutional-law-keyed-to-stone/equality-and-the-constitution/korematsu-v-united-states-2/ |title=Korematsu v. United States |publisher=CaseBreifs |access-date=21 March 2016}}</ref> This was regardless of their [[citizenship]].<ref name=kv.usCB/> In February of 1942, President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] issued Executive Order No. 9066.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=219 |title=Document for February 19th: Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=21 March 2016}}</ref> This gave military commanders the power to [[Evacuation|evacuate]] all persons c