Note: The preceding post is from: Popular Astronomy, Vol. 49, October, 1941, p.284.

7 December 1941, Battle of Pearl Harbor. The "Day That Shall Live in Infamy."

19 February 1942: American President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) issued Executive Order 9066 and approximately 90000 Americans (70000 Japanese; 11000 Germans and 3000 Italians went off to prison camps as a 'military necessity' of WWII.

The Stone (Supreme) Court, made up largely of 'progressive' Roosevelt appointees affirmed the legality of Order 9006 in 1944 (Korematsu v. U.S.) Lone 'conservative' Justice Roberts joined the dissent.

Ultra-conservative J. Edgar Hoover (FBI) had already done much the same but conservative California Governor and future Chief Justice Earl Warren (R) outflanked him using the freshly minted 1940 Federal Census data to track down Japanese-Americans living in his state.

Warren himself would be nominated to the Court by Eisenhower (R) yet the 'Warren Court' is mostly noted for its progressive decisions (Brown v. Board; Gideon; Miranda; &c.) and he couldn't get elected dog catcher or just speak at a public university in his home state today.