joining us now is one of those children, karen korematsu, daughter of civil rights icon fred korematsuho was jailed for refusing orders to be sent to an internment camp set up for u.s. residents of japanese ancestry. his case went all the way to the supreme court. last year karen korematsu wrote the "washington post" writing -- i believe we will soon see that are found to be unconstitutional . for more we go to austin, texas, where karen korematsu joins us founder and executive director , of the fred t. korematsu institute. welcome to democracy now! explain what happened to your father and why you see this so closely correlated with what has happened in the supreme court this week. , amy.d morning it is good to be with you. thank you for bringing focus to this issue and to my father. he thought in 1942 that the executive order 9066 that was hastily issued, i might add, by president roosevelt, violated and civil rights as americans. all due process of law was denied. he thought it was wrong as an american citizen to be incarcerated when he had done nothing wrong. so that is why he fough

joining us now is one of those children, karen korematsu, daughter of civil rights icon fred korematsuho was jailed for refusing orders to be sent to an internment camp set up for u.s. residents of japanese ancestry. his case went all the way to the supreme court. last year karen korematsu wrote the "washington post" writing -- i believe we will soon see that are found to be unconstitutional . for morere we go to austinin, t, where karen korematsu joins us founder anand executive director , of the fred t. korematsu institute. welcome to democracy now! explain what happened to your father and why you see this so closely correlated with what has happened in the supreme court this week. , amy.d morning it is good to be with you. thank you for bringing focus to this issue and to my father. he thought in 1942 that the executive order 9066 that was hastily issued, i might add, by president roosevelt, violated and civil rights as americans. all due process of law was denied. he thought it was wrong as an american citizen to be incarcerated when he had done nothing wrong. so that is why he fou

as the supreme court looks poised to uphold president trump's travel ban, we will speak with karen korematsu, the daughter of fred korematsu, whose challenge of the interment of japanese americans during told war ii went all the way the supreme court. all of that in more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman.