Named after Fred Korematsu, whose wrongful internment during World War II became a landmark civil rights case, this bill would make it illegal to imprison or detain anyone in the U.S. based solely on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. It writes that protection directly into federal criminal law, closing what sponsors see as a gap that allowed past mass detentions. The bill gives the Attorney General the power to add protected categories in the future but not to remove the ones already listed.
Congressional Summary
Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2025 This bill prohibits the detention or imprisonment of an individual based solely on an actual or perceived protected characteristic of the individual. The term protected characteristic includes each of the following: race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and any additional characteristic that the Department of Justice determines to be a protected characteristic.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-02-18
- Date Added
- 2026-04-06
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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