“The liberty of every American citizen freely to come and to go must frequently, in the face of sudden danger, be temporarily limited or suspended. The civil authorities must often resort to the expedient of excluding citizens temporarily from a locality.”

—  Hugo Black

Writing for the court, Korematsu v. United States, 33 U.S. 124 (1944).

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