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Quotation from Korematsu v. United States by Supreme Court of the United States
“It should be noted, to begin with, that all legal restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group are immediately suspect. That is not to say that all such restrictions are unconstitutional. It is to say that courts must subject them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antagonism never can.”
Korematsu v. United States, Opinion of the Court (Black, J.) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Black states the standard of review before applying it to the exclusion order.
Citation: "It should be noted, to begin with, that all legal restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group are immediately suspect. That is not to say that all such restrictions are unconstitutional. It is to say that courts must subject them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antagonism never can." — Supreme Court of the United States, Korematsu v. United States, Opinion of the Court (Black, J.) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id korematsu-v-united-states-q1)
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