it took two months and a phone call just to get a meeting with fred korematsu. now he sat across from the man, nervous, hoping that seeing incriminating documents the government had kept secret during his trial would convince him to fight again. korematsu was a quiet man. he sat there and read the papers in silence. after 20 minutes passed, he turned to him and said, would you be my lawyer? in the 1940s when he lost that case, the supreme court upheld internment camps for u.s. citizens on the basis of race. and they based that court ruling on the government's contention that there were clear findings of a military necessity that justified that policy. there were no such clear findings. that court ruling was based on a false premise. and the documents proving that were discovered 40 years later, and fred korematsu did decide to go back to court, and this time he won. he got his conviction overturned. the judge in his case told the courtroom that the government's position was, quote, tantamount to a confession of error. it still took a long time, b in 2011, the u.s

the revelation of those lies before today had already led to the overturning of fred korematsu's original conviction and it led to a formal apology from the justice department for having lied to the court. but before today, the korematsu ruling was still technically on the books. sotomayor cited that in her dissent. that led rogers to denounce her for citing that case, saying it was totally irrelevant to the ban ruling today. but then he said from here on out korematsu isially overturned as of today. it is widely viewed as a dead letter because it's been so widely repudiated by the court record, but now it is gone, which is great. just because the internment camps are based on race other than the migrants on the border, that one line by chief justice roberts mighmake that one line a little harder, so yay. check this out from sonia sotomayor today. in case you have not always seen what she said today, and she said it out loud, she read it from the bench, you should know this is what she said. quote, the united states of america is a nation built upon the promise of religious liberty. our f

fred korematsu brought that case, calling the internment order unconstitutional. in 74 years, the court has never explicitly overruled the korematsu decision until today. >>> this legal isn't ending, not just with the travel ban, but with the separation of families at the border. today california and 16 other states sued the federal government. the attorneys general say although the president signed an order to stop the practice, only six children have been reunited with their parents in the past week. at least 2,000 children and teenagers are still detained. and the pentagon is making plans to house at least 40,000 more people on military bases. now at least 50 of those migrant children are being held in california. two of those 50 right here in the bay . now, we mentioned the military bases that could serve as camps. the concord naval weapons station could be one of those camps. nbc bay area's jodi hernandez is in concord where it's expected to be a busy night. jodi? >> reporter: that's right, raj. protesters are gathering as we speak at the concord b.a.r.t stati

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