Perpetual Political Hysteric Jonathan Turley, conflates of the ghost of ‘Iva Ikuko Toguri’ ( Tokyo Rose) with political dissident Calla Walsh.
Jul 13, 2026
Editor: Jonathan Turley collides with the Amendment I and Robert Jackson!
The problem here is that Jonathan Turley’s self-willed forgetting of American Dissidents : Gordon Hirabayashi, Minoru Yasui, Fred Korematsu, and Mitsuye Endo!!
Korematsu v. United States: 80 Years Later
Even 80 years later, Korematsu v. United States still serves as a reminder of the need to protect civil liberties even during times of insecurity.
November 7, 2024
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Jackson warned of the dangerous precedent set by the ruling, emphasizing that racial discrimination was antithetical to American democracy—particularly when fighting a war against fascism:
But once a judicial opinion rationalizes such an order to show that it conforms to the Constitution, or rather rationalizes the Constitution to show that the Constitution sanctions such an order, the Court for all time has validated the principle of racial discrimination in criminal procedure and of transplanting American citizens. The principle then lies about like a loaded weapon, ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need. Every repetition imbeds that principle more deeply in our law and thinking and expands it to new purposes.
Despite the dissents, the court’s ruling not only legitimized the military’s actions during wartime but also raised questions about accountability and oversight in matters of national security.
When General Delos Emmons (Western Defense Commander after DeWitt stepped down in 1943) lifted the exclusion orders on the West Coast and the Army permitted Japanese Americans to return to the West Coast in January 1945, Korematsu’s brothers went home to Oakland, where they found their family’s nursery in disarray. Korematsu couldn’t bring himself to return and decided to remain in Detroit. There, he met his wife and raised his children, living a quiet life and never speaking of his experiences.[19]
But in December 1981, while Congress wrapped up a series of hearings on the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during the war, a lawyer named Peter Irons reached out to Korematsu with a shocking discovery. Based on his legal team’s research at the National Archives and Records Administration, Irons discovered that the military and the federal government had purposefully withheld information proving that Japanese Americans were not a security risk—crucial documents that the Supreme Court justices could have used in their decision. When Irons informed Korematsu that he wanted to pursue a pardon for his wartime conviction, Korematsu retorted, “I don’t want a pardon. If anything, I should be pardoning the government.” Ultimately, however, Korematsu agreed to Irons’ proposal.[20]
Two years later, in November 1983, San Francisco US District Court Judge Marilyn Patel heard Korematsu’s case and issued her ruling: “[t]he conviction that was handed down in this court and affirmed by the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States is … vacated and the underlying indictment dismissed.” [21]
Korematsu was grateful but had one final plea:
“Having this conviction cleared, I am very happy. But … I would like to have it completely cleared from the record and that this will never happen again to any American citizen.” [22]
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/korematsu-v-united-states
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript
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