Looking for a precedent for the Supreme Court’s decisions? Try Germany in the 1930’s.
In October 1936, German law professors held their annual meeting in Berlin. In his welcoming address, the meeting’s chairperson turned to the pressing issue of Jewish influence. “The Jew’s relationship to our intellectual work is…
Assessment
The comparison between current U.S. Supreme Court decisions and German legal academia in the 1930s is a provocative historical analogy. The author draws a direct line from Nazi-era law professors justifying state-sponsored exclusion to contemporary judicial reasoning. Readers should watch for whether this framing gains traction in legal commentary or is dismissed as hyperbolic. The core question is whether institutional capture by political ideology is genuinely underway or whether the historical parallel is too strained to be instructive.