On this episode of Dave Does History*, Bill Mick and Dave talk about the strange case of Fred Korematsu, a man who was arrested, charged and convicted of being in the wrong place because he was of Japanese ancestry. Now… you might think that sounds really… well… stupid.

And pretty much everybody around NOW agrees that it was. But at the time, it sort of… made sense? Maybe?

At any rate, as the nation goes into convulsions today over the potential reversal of Roe, it’s rather amazing to take a look at some of the occasions when the Court reversed itself. More immortally, two of the times it didn’t… including the time we sent Fred Korematsu to prison for having Japanese ancestors.

*But He Cannot Change It…

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