# Declaring a State of Emergency (US)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declaring-a-state-of-emergency-us/782433>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 17, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declaring-a-state-of-emergency-us/782433 "2017-03-17T20:16:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declaring-a-state-of-emergency-us/782433/21 "2017-03-21T01:44:18Z")

</div>

I don’t believe that the SCOTUS would uphold such an action today. Not involving US citizens.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declaring-a-state-of-emergency-us/782433/22 "2017-03-21T02:16:02Z")

</div>

> [@ZurBob](#):
>
> I’m encouraged by your optimism and feelings of how far we’ve advanced since the 1940s. However, I don’t share the same degree of faith in the American “body politic” as you.
> 
> The precedent for the OP has been established. There has been no change in statute to prevent a re-occurrence. The only thing halting such episodes, is the political attitude of the times… And times change.

In my opinion, Korematsu is the second worst SCOTUS decision that is still theoretically in effect. (Buck would be the worst.)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ZurBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/71e660/32.png) [@ZurBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZurBob)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declaring-a-state-of-emergency-us/782433/23 "2017-03-21T02:38:30Z")

</div>

> [@Common\_Tater](#):
>
> Of course in hindsight everyone is suitably appalled, but from 1939 to 1943 the Allies were getting their ass kicked in almost every theatre of war. The internment of the Japanese didn’t happen in a vacuum. Today we look back at history with the assured inevitability of an Allied victory, this was not the case at the time. Context as they say, is everything.

And as others say, when context fails, rationalization picks up the slack.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declaring-a-state-of-emergency-us/782433/24 "2017-03-21T02:44:07Z")

</div>

> [@ZurBob](#):
>
> And as others say, when context fails, rationalization picks up the slack.

Facts are stubborn things. Rationalization got nothing to do with it.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ZurBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/71e660/32.png) [@ZurBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZurBob)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declaring-a-state-of-emergency-us/782433/25 "2017-03-21T10:53:13Z")

</div>

> [@Common\_Tater](#):
>
> Facts are stubborn things. Rationalization got nothing to do with it.

Oh, but it do!  
When one conflates fact with excuse, well, _that’s called rationalization_.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declaring-a-state-of-emergency-us/782433.md?page=1)