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What is the constitutional basis of justice Murphy’s dissent

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equal protection doctrine, and it should have protected the young Korematsu from being sent to an American internment camp
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Justice Murphy was against the approval of the exclusion of all people of Japanese ancestry, whether alien or not from the pacific area in a context in which the had military necessity as a result of a lack of martial law. That is, that he disagreed on racism installed by the 5th amendment of the constitution.

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