Hey everyone Jody Avigan here on Sundays over the course of the summer July and August

We're going to be bringing you some of our favorite episodes from the Archives

You're still going to get brand new episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but we're giving ourselves a little bit of a break on Sundays running a previous episode.

It's still from around the same date, so it will still hook in in that way.

But look, we've done about 450 of these.

There's a good chance you haven't heard this one or haven't heard it in a while and might want to re-listen.

So here we go with a Sunday favorite from the archives.

Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avrikan.

This day, August 31st, 1942, an ACLU lawyer is arguing in California District Court that the

interment of Japanese Americans is unconstitutional.

The next day, September 1st, a judge would rule in the case, upholding the government's wartime

detention of Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals.

This fight and this ruling was really the start of a long legal battle and at the heart of it was a man named Fred Coramatsu who had resisted the order to report to a detention center.

Coromatsu's case attracted the attention of the ACLU,

and after this ruling, it would eventually go

all the way to the Supreme Court,

where two years later the Supreme Court upheld his convection for violating the order,

but they also issued another ruling declaring the interment camps unconstitutional.

We'll get a little bit into that, but that ruling at the Supreme Court and that moment the Supreme Court

a few years later effectively ended Japanese interment but staying in this moment of the

first year of Japanese interment the case of Fred Karamatsu and lots more here to discuss as always are

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