9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
When Guantanamo Bay opened in 2002 to confine suspected terrorists, Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima saw his past mirrored.
In 1942, Tashima, then 8, began a three-year stretch with his family in an Arizona internment camp after President Franklin D. Roosevelt reacted to Pearl Harbor by locking away 110,000 Japanese-Americans as potential security threats.
Tashima, the first Japanese-American to be appoin... (continued)
