President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 is constitutional; therefore, American citizens of Japanese descent can be interned and deprived of their basic constitutional rights. This case featured the first application of strict scrutiny to racial discrimination by the government. (Overruled by Trump v. Hawaii (2018)) Decided December 18, 1944 (argued 1944). Opinion of the Court: Hugo Black → go there Dissenting: Roberts, Murphy, Jackson|. Overruled by Trump v. Hawaii (2018) → go there Applied: the Fifth Amendment → go there Topic: Discrimination based on race and ethnicity. Fred Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that upheld the exclusion of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast Military Area during World War II, an exclusion that led to the internment of Japanese Americans. The decision has been widely criticized, with some scholars describing it as "an odious and discredited artifact of popular bigotry" and "a stain on American jurisprudence". The case is often cited as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. Wiki link