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The Bay Area Attorneys for Redress
In 1981, a researcher named Peter Irons uncovered evidence that the U.S. government had presented false information to the Supreme Court during Fred Korematsu's case. The document showed that John DeWitt's reports in 1942, which led to the passing of Executive Order 9066, were based solely on racial prejudice and conjecture. An Oakland attorney named Dale Minami, along with a team of lawyers, many of whose parents and grandparents had been incarcerated during the war, brought Fred Korematu's case back to court. In 2018, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that forcible relocation is unlawful and explicitly on the basis of race. To this day, despite Robert Jackson's feared denunciation
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