Supreme Court finally ruled Japanese internment camps unconstitutional in decision on Trump’s travel ban

In the same decision overturning the injunction against President Donald Trump's travel ban, the United States Supreme Court also quietly overturned a landmark decision that allowed the internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II.

In 1994, in Korematsu v. United States, the court held in a 6-3 decision that Executive Order 9066, which created internment, was constitutional.

The case was cited in a dissent, allowing the court the opportunity to final overturn the ruling.

"The dissents's reference to Korematsu, however, affords this Court the opportunity to make express what is already obvious: Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and -- to be clear -- 'has no place in law under the Constitution,'" the majority held.