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FEBRUARY 4, 2014 AT 1:57 PM
Article found here (teasers below)
http://washingtonexaminer.com/justice-antonin-scalia-says-world-war-ii-style-internment-camps-could-happen-again/article/2543424
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Justice Antonin Scalia predicts that the Supreme
Court will eventually authorize another a wartime abuse of civil rights
such as the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II.
“You are kidding yourself if you think the same
thing will not happen again,” Scalia told the University of Hawaii law
school while discussing Korematsu v. United States, the ruling in which
the court gave its imprimatur to the internment camps.
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The local Associated Press report quotes Scalia as
using a Latin phrase that means “in times of war, the laws fall silent,”
to explain why the court erred in that decision and will do so again.
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“That’s what was going on — the panic about the war
and the invasion of the Pacific and whatnot,” Scalia said. “That’s what
happens. It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen
again, in time of war. It’s no justification but it is the reality.”
(snip) Read entire article here: http://washingtonexaminer.com/justice-antonin-scalia-says-world-war-ii-style-internment-camps-could-happen-again/article/2543424
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