1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 (7 Fed. Reg. 1407; relating to authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe military areas), endowing the Secretary of War and the designated military commanders of the Secretary of War with the power to create military zones and forcibly exclude persons as the Secretary of War and the designated military commanders determined to be necessary and desirable . (2) On March 2, 1942, military commander Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt promulgated Public Proclamation No. 1, which declared that the entire Pacific Coast was particularly subject to attack, to attempted invasion … and, in connection therewith, [was] subject to espionage and acts of sabotage and that [s]uch persons or classes of persons as the situation may require will by subsequent proclamation be excluded from all of Military Area No. 1 and … [some] zones … within Military Area No. 2. . On that basis, General Dewitt designated all of California, the western halves of Oregon and Washington, and the southern half of Arizona as Military Area No. 1 . (3) On March 21, 1942, President Roosevelt signed the Act of March 21, 1942 (56 Stat. 173, chapter 191) (commonly referred to as Public Law 503 ), which stated, [W]hoever shall enter, remain in, leave, or commit any act in any military area or military zone … shall … be guilty … and upon conviction shall be liable to a fine … or … imprisonment … or both. … . (4) Pursuant to Executive Order 9066 (7 Fed. Reg. 1407