Antonin Scalia says Japanese internment could happen again

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/04/antonin_scalia_says_japanese_internment_could_happen_again/

In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, as war loomed and hysteria spread, the U.S. government committed one of the greatest crimes of the New Deal era by sending more than 100,000 people of Japanese heritage into internment camps.

This episode has long been considered shameful, and the Supreme Court decision that allowed it, Korematsu v. United States, is one of the worst the high court has ever handed down.

Yet despite the widespread agreement that Japanese internment was egregious, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, while speaking to a group of law students at the University of Hawaii, warned that a decision like Korematsu could very well happen again.