Civil LibertiesCivil liberties are defined as individual rights protected by law from unjust government or other interference. During World War II, the civil liberties of Japanese-American citizens were severely neglected and violated. They were forced to leave their homes and end up in internment camps. There are many questions about how and why this happened. How did the Supreme Court view it in the 1940s? How do you see it now? What forms of resistance have the policies provoked? And how is the situation following the Pearl Harbor attacks and the September 11, 2001 attack connected? Did the Supreme Court find the internment of Japanese-American citizens legitimate? In 1944 the Supreme Court upheld Executive Order 9066 following numerous lawsuits filed by Japanese Americans. For example, Minoru Yasui v. United States, a Japanese-American lawyer from Oregon who resigned after the Pearl Harbor attacks to return to Oregon after working in Chicago. He was arrested for violating the curfew established by the executive order. He was sentenced to one year in prison. In...