POS2041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Equal Protection Clause, Korematsu V. United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt
17 Aug 2020
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Korematsu v. united states case: facts of the case. In response to the japanese attack on pearl harbor during world war ii, the u. s. government decided to require japanese-americans to move into relocation camps as a matter of national security. President franklin roosevelt signed executive order 9066 in february 1942, just two months after the attack on pearl harbor. A japanese-american man living in san leandro, fred korematsu, chose to stay at his residence rather than obey the order to relocate. Korematsu was arrested and convicted of violating the order. He responded by arguing that executive order 9066 violated his fifth amendment rights. The ninth circuit affirmed korematsu"s conviction: constitutional question. Whether the president and congress went beyond their war powers by implementing exclusion and restricting the rights of americans of japanese descent: conclusion. In an opinion written by justice black, the court ruled that the evacuation order violated by.
