The Japanese American Internment became much more than a historical exercise after 9-11. The subsequent “War on Terror” raised difficult questions about national security and individual rights, and the proper role of judicial review.
“Chapter 8. Epilogue: Watchful Care over the Loaded Weapon” addresses some of these issues and is available for free to the public, courtesy of a grant from the CCLPEP (California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, administered by the California State Library).
On this page, we also provide useful abstracts of the relevant “enemy combatant” cases and the various statutes that were implicated in their decision.