In Korematsu the Court gave a pass to an odious, gravely injurious racial classification authored by an Executive order and basically the Court invoked an ill-defined national security threat to justify an exclusionary policy in sweeping proportion.
Sotomayor criticized the Court's past decisions on racial classifications under national security.
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