U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Sunday sidestepped questions about Donald Trump’s views on Muslims, but said he doubted anything like the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans would ever occur again.
“This country has developed a stronger tradition of civil liberties” than it had when 70,000 Japanese-Americans were held in internment camps during World War II, Breyer told ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl in a segment that aired on ABC This Week. The Supreme Court, Breyer added, approved of the internment in the 1944 ruling in Korematsu v. United States “without any evidence whatever” that those interned posed a security threat to the United States.
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