About this episode

The episode discusses Executive Order 9066 and the implications of the Korematsu case on civil liberties during wartime.

One signature from a president turned suspicion into policy and forced about 120,000 people to leave their homes. We sit down with Dr. Stephen Knott, emeritus professor of national security affairs and a longtime scholar of presidential power, to unpack Executive Order 9066 and the Japanese American internment that followed Pearl Harbor. Along the way, we ask the uncomfortable question that civics can’t dodge: how does a democracy justify stripping due process from its own citizens during war...

People in this episode

Guest: Dr. Stephen Knott

Topics covered

• Japanese American internment
• presidential power
• due process
• democracy
• civil rights

Keywords

• Executive Order 9066
• Korematsu Case
• Japanese American internment
• presidential power
• due process

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Places: Pearl Harbor

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