[Catspaw]

Interestingly, Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were not put in internment camps. The order was only for those on the mainland.

[aristeides]

Since Hawaii was under military rule (martial law,) the Japanese presented less of a problem there. Also, relocating the large numbers of Japanese in Hawaii would have presented a much bigger logistical problem.

In wartime, it's enough for me -- and it was enough for the courts at the time -- that the relocations that were in fact practised should have had a rational basis. Much of the MAGIC intelligence is published in David D. Lowman, MAGIC. You can see from the evidence in that book that the relocation policy had a rational basis.

This is all something to bear in mind in our current situation.

Interesting that Chief Justice Rehnquist is apparently aware of the MAGIC evidence.