American Pendulum Reprise
More Perfect
English - June 26, 2018 16:00 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 13.7K ratingsGovernment News wnyc more perfect supreme court scotus Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What happens when the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, seems to get it wrong? Korematsu v. United States upheld President Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of American citizens during World War II based solely on their Japanese heritage, for the sake of national security. In this episode, we follow Fred Korematsu’s path to the Supreme Court, and we ask the question: if you can’t get justice in the Supreme Court, can you find it someplace else?