Decades after Japanese-American civil rights leaders challenged the U.S. government’s discrimination against people of Japanese descent, their families are fighting President Donald Trump’s travel ban. Previously, the Trump administration defended its executive order, calling it a “national security directive” and arguing that other government powers shouldn’t question the president on such matters. But the descendents of Hirabayashi, Korematsu and Yasui warn that if the Supreme Court sides with the administration’s view, justices run the risk of repeating history. Hirabayashi, Korematsu and Yasui all defied the military-enforced orders, and their cases reached the Supreme Court. “The administration is asking the court again to stand down ... in the name in national security,” Tamaki said in regards to the travel ban.

Source: Huffington Post September 21, 2017 21:33 UTC