Mark Gongloff, Columnist

The Supremes Give Trump Everything He’s Wanted

And the court’s travel-ban decision is a shame that will last for decades.

June 26, 2018 at 9:40 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

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Out of the ashes of one Korematsu rises a new Korematsu.

Korematsu v. U.S. was the 1944 Supreme Court decision rubber-stamping Franklin Roosevelt's internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Chief Justice John Roberts today repudiated that decision for good – but did so in the service of a new terrible decision in Trump v. Hawaii, rubber-stamping President Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban.