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  > In World War II, Executive Order 9066 suspended basic rights of
  >  Japanese Americans - even people whose loyalty to the United States
  >  was never questioned, though the government feared the group as a
  >  whole might contain some spies - and led to a lot of people (>100K)
  >  being rounded up and kept at internment camps. Korematsu v. United
  >  States ruled this was constitutional.
  > 
  > 
  > Today, in the "War on Terror," at least one politician can make
  >  surprisingly strong statements about plans for negative treatment
  >  against large groups of people (e.g. Muslims) because of concerns that
  >  a small minority of them might be radical enough to kill a bunch of
  >  people, and [the politician can] remain surprisingly popular.
  > 
  > 
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  What, if any, modern-day obstacles are in place that would nullify the same or materially same executive order? [This link indicates: "The Court would then have to adhere to, reconcile with, or overrule Korematsu & Hirabayashi." However, it does not state that there this is the only obstacle and hence the question](https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/5927/could-executive-order-9066-be-repeated-with-other-groups-today)
  
  
  
title: Executive Order 9066