My remarkable padlet by Naod Sebhat https://padlet.com/nsebhat/hf1owke9irux Made with charm en-us 2017-05-05 04:59:14 UTC 2017-05-05 06:22:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Japanese Internment Reflection nsebhat https://padlet.com/nsebhat/hf1owke9irux/wish/170103095 Litigation has been one of the most important forms of political participation not only for the government, but also for certain groups who use litigation as a form of political participation in an effort to address a certain issue or violation of their rights/liberties. The decisions that come from these cases serve as important precedents in our current times. The reading regarding Litigation as Political advocacy says, “Political scientists have long recognized that interest groups play a critical role in judicial politics and litigation involving issues of political importance”. One example of this is the case of Korematsu v. United States. This case regarded “an American citizen of Japanese descent whose home was in the [West Coast military area] -- violated [Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34]”. Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34 was mandated as a “protection against espionage and sabotage…during a state of war with Japan” (Korematsu). In this case, the courts ruled that the mandate was indeed constitutional and the individual was convicted. 
 
 
Executive order 9066, “directed the exclusion after May 9, 1942, from a described West Coast military area of all persons of Japanese ancestry” (korematsu) and forced thousands of Japanese Americans, many of whom were citizens, away from their homes, jobs, and sometimes even families. As shown in the film “An American Contradiction” there were many families who became separated and their lives had changed forever. Businesses, careers, school all had to be let go within a period of weeks and transitioning to ‘Relocation Centers’ (Korematsu) had done irreversible damage to the Japanese American Community. Although by definition the ‘relocation areas’ were in fact concentration camps as a man in the film “An American Contradiction” mentions during a meeting, it was in fact said in the court, “and we deem it unjustifiable to call them concentration camps, with all the ugly connotations that term implies”
 
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