The smokeless cigar bar is closed for a summer vacation, so Amicus is revisiting a conversation from five years ago that couldn’t be more relevant today. In 2021, Dahlia Lithwick sat down with Judge Edward M. Chen and Don Tamaki, members of the legal team that overturned Korematsu v. United States, the 1944 Supreme Court case involving a man convicted of resisting the internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II. Chen and Tamaki discussed the overlooked context, corruption, and cover-up that enabled the internment policy—and how the Supreme Court has yet to fully contend with the legacy of Korematsu.
The documentary discussed in this episode is Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066.
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