Question: Did the President and Congress go beyond their war powers by implementing exclusion and
restricting the rights of Americans of Japanese descent?

Facts of the case:
In response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, the US government
decided to require Jepanese Americans to move into relocation camps as a matter of national
security President Panklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942, two months
afer Pearl Harbor AJapanese 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 labing the order. He responded by arguing that Executive Order 9066 vielated the
F Amendment The Ninth Orcuit affirmed Korematsu's conviction.