9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
Constitutional Law,
Government,
U.S. Supreme Court
Mar. 21, 2019
Courts’ historical struggles with citizenship renunciation
The federal government’s ignoble mass imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II has a postscript: In 1944 and 1945, thousands of prisoners were pressured to and did renounce their U.S. citizenship. Later, many who had renounced tried to cancel their renunciations.
John S. Caragozian
Email: caragozian@gmail.com
John is a Los Angeles-based lawyer and sits on the Board of the California Supreme Court Historical Society. He welcomes ideas for future monthly columns on California's legal history at caragozian@gmail.com.
Donald E. Warner
Donald is a Los Angeles-based lawyer and adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where his courses have included California Legal History.
The federal government's ignoble mass imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II has a postscript: In 1944 and 1945, thousands of prisoners were pressured to and did renounce their U.S. citizenship. Later, many who had renounced tried to cancel their renunciations. The government's response to these attempted cancellations displayed belated enlightenment, but also displayed inconsistencies and residual stereotyping of Japanese-Americans.
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