The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" id="mwmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a> issued its decision in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States" id="mwmQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Korematsu v. United States">Korematsu v. United States</a> supporting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" id="mwmg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066" id="mwmw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Executive Order 9066">Executive Order 9066</a> which cleared the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States.<sup about="#mwt37" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_18#cite_note-6" id="mwnA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwnQ">[6]</span></a></sup>
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