Letters,
Government
Mar. 30, 2011
In Support of Unlimited Executive Power
Stephen Rohde responds to "Jewish Bar Examines Nazi Judges' Blind Eye."
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
In response to "Jewish Bar Examines Nazi Judges' Blind Eye" (March 17) - side by side with Nazi judges, were Nazi lawyers. Carl Schmitt promoted reactionary views of executive power to justify the autocratic power of the Führer. Schmitt's anti-liberal jurisprudence and anti-Semitism led him to enthusiastically support the Nazis after 1933. He quickly became the "Crown Jurist" of National Socialism, defending Hitler's extra-judicial killings of political opponents and ...
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