
Gordon Hirabayashi
American sociologistWikipedia
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Sep 19, 2026
The Slippery Slope from 9/11 - CD345
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13:13Lorraine BannaiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
United States, the Supreme Court upheld those orders, deferring to the military judgment that they were necessary.
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13:21Lorraine BannaiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Forty years later, Fred Korematsu and Gordon Hirabayashi were exonerated, on proof that the government had withheld from the court material evidence bearing on the issue of military necessity.
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13:33Lorraine BannaiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In essence, even as the military orders lacked factual basis, Japanese Americans languished in camps, many for over three years.
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13:44Jennifer BrineyHOST
And so in the aftermath of World War II and the acknowledgement that our government denied Americans our most basic rights in the name of fighting that war, steps were taken in the 1970s by Congress in an attempt to stop it from happening again.
Episode 305 - Masters Season 4
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75:36KyleHOST
Yes.
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75:37KyleHOST
And the clue is this 1944 decision frequently cites Hirabayashi versus U.S. decided 18 months earlier and upholding a conviction for violating curfew.
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75:50EmilyHOST
And the
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75:51KyleHOST
correct response that they're going for is Korematsu versus U.S. Andrew wrote, what is Ken versus us at WrestleMania is what he was going for.