Breyer Avoids Questions About Donald Trump, Defends Court

Justice said he doubted anything like the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans would ever occur again.

Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal

December 27, 2015 | 1 Comments

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Sunday sidestepped questions about Donald Trump’s views on Muslims, but said he doubted anything like the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans would ever occur again. "This country has developed a stronger tradition of civil liberties" than it had when 70,000 Japanese-Americans were held in internment camps during World War II, Breyer told ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl in a segment that aired on ABC This Week.

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Brian Murphy
Dec 28, 2015

I think Breyer is correct that large scale internment would not happen again in the USA. Another reason it won‘t is because if there is an existential threat to the USA, the federal government has an enormous capacity through technology to find specific threats. Ask Edward Snowden. In other words the Feds will spy on its citizens. It already is.The left is obsessed with Trump and want to use him to define all Republicans and conservatives. It‘s a political trick and the mainstream media is firing on all engines to accomplish this. The propaganda and attempts to control the "public mind" is frightening.Trump is an egotistical blowhard. He is no conservative.And I do not think Trump said lets round up Muslims in the USA and put them in camps, but that is what the main stream media wants us to believe. If I am wrong and he did say this I wish someone would direct me to a dependable source - I mean a video of him actually saying it. I won‘t hold my breath. Why some people purposefully confuse the debate by comparing the internment Japanese-American citizens with a moratorium on Muslim or Syrian immigration of non-citizens indicates they are not being truthful or honest.