Until August of 1934, German judges swore an oath that reflected the spirit of the democratic Weimar republic: “I swear loyalty to the Constitution, obedience to the law, and conscientious fulfillment of the duties of my office, so help me God.”

But that fateful summer, the judicial oath was tweaked just a wee bit: “I swear loyalty to the Fuhrer of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler, obedience to the law, and conscientious fulfillment of the duties of my office, so help me God.”

Donald Trump would love to mimic what Hitler intoned on April 27, 1942: “I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them, but that they are here for the nation” – the national interest, as defined by Hitler – and woe to any recalcitrant judges “who evidently do not u

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