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"US law" is not a valid justification. Segregation was US law. Slavery was US law. The detention of Japanese Americans during WWII was US law. "It's the law
by bmmayer1 13y ago
"US law" is not a valid justification. Segregation was US law. Slavery was US law. The detention of Japanese Americans during WWII was US law. "It's the law" is a useless moral justification unless the law is grounded in something greater than merely the paper it is written on. Especially when it is written by the government who uses it to defend their creeping invasions of our liberty.
The reason we have a Constitution is to constrain the power of the government to make such laws, and if such laws do exist, they are (or should be) considered invalid.
- dnautics 13y agoexactly. The argument this guy is making is structurally equivalent to if the courts told Korematsu, "the conversation about internment should have happened in 1941, when congress gave the military broad powers to prosecute the war. If you didn't want the military to intern civilians, you would have written a prohibition against the power of internment into the declaration of war."