Say id have to study it in the course of a judicial case. Let me bring it down to the operative words, whether employees should or should not make inquiries to whether an applicant or employee intends to become pregnant. Senator, i need to sounds like youre asking me about a case or controversy and with all respect when we come to cases and controversies, a good judge will listen. Socrates said the first virtue of who could judge is to listen courteously and decide impartially. I think you know why im asking these questions. This one i dont. The reason im asking is because about your views on pregnancy, and women in the workplace, two of your former students from legal ethics and professionalism class last spring wrote to this committee to say how troubled they were about your comments in an april 19th class, it was a gender targeted discussion regarding the hardship to employers of having female employees who may use maternity benefits. One of these students signed her name publicly t
They werent rounded up, the germans and italians in this country. Of the axis powers, it was only the japanese americans that got put in internment camps en masse in world war ii. Why is that . Why was it just them . In 1982, a legal historian lawyer named peter irons was going through boxes of government documents. He was researching the origins of that world war ii policy in which the u. S. Government locked up japanese americans. Much to his surprise, peter irons stumbled upon a whole bunch of evidence on where that policy came from. It was evidence that had been lost to history. It had never been made part of the official record, never been made part of the government record, the historical record or legal record of where that policy came from. Fdr made an executive order to lock up japanese americans in february 1942. That executive order cited military necessity as the reason why japanese americans had to be locked up. It cited the military necessity of protecting the homeland, e
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not on a racial basis. the war department had documents in which they were bluntly asserting that the supposed military justification for rounding up japanese americans was bunk. this was still during the war. quote, the vast mass of fifth column folklore, insofar as concrete evidence is concerned is almost entirely baseless. that was the war department during 1944. so here s the problem. here s the legal problem. japanese americans who were rounded up and put in these internment camps because of fdr s executive order, they challenged the internment camps in court, including fred koramatsu, a japanese american who was picked up off the street in san leandro, california after the war. he was fiercely opposed to internment. he thought it was wrong. he fought it. his case went all the way to the supreme court, and fred
side of the story. you made a point yesterday of talking about your four heroes and one of them was justice jackson and i went back to look at some of his cases, just know of him, i don t know much about him, and i found his dissent in koramatsu, and this was a case which i thought was fascinating because his dissent was not that long but it had an impact, it was profound. the question of course was, the military orders and the united states or the treatment of japanese-americans, fred koramatsu was caught up in it and basically told he had no choice, he had to go off the internment camp and that whole medical, pardon me, military directive was challenged in this case, and it was interesting that it was upheld on an opinion by justice black but among the s dissenters was robert jackson in