Question
Which event was the focus of this Supreme Court case?
A military order, however unconstitutional, is not apt to last longer than the military
emergency. ... But once a judicial opinion rationalizes such an order ..
[t]he principle
then lies about like a loaded weapon ready for the hand of any authority that can bring
forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.
-Justice Robert H. Jackson, dissenting opinion, Korematsu v. United States, 1944
• supporting the Lend-Lease Act
internment of Japanese Americans
• implementing the Marshall Plan
• segregation of African Americans
Answer
The event that was the focus of the Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States was the internment of Japanese Americans.