EDITOR:

Six members of the Supreme Court have taken the path of the judges in Nazi Germany. They have put their loyalty to Donald Trump over their loyalty to the U.S. Constitution.

There is precedent, as noted in the UCLA Law Review.

When Hitler consolidated his power in Nazi Germany, as Trump is doing now in preparation for the election, the judges kowtowed to him, Six of the nine (three appointed by Trump) have parroted the Trump party line.

In August 1934, German judges began taking an oath to follow Hitler, not the country’s constitution. All state officials, including judges, took the following oath: “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.”

No German judge refused to take the oath. Martin Gauger, a prosecutor at the state court in Wuppertal, Germany, appears to be the only public lawyer to resign his office rather than swear the required oath. As Gauger explained in a letter to his brother: “I could not swear an unlimited oath of loyalty and obedience to a man who is bound neither by the law nor the traditions of justice.”

So, the Supreme Court has brought us back to the days of the Divine Right of Kings. The 13 colonies rebelled against George III, who opined that he was above law. Now our Supreme Court agrees. George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm” says it well, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

SCOTUS has declared Trump, like the pigs in “Animal Farm” is just that — beyond the law that applies to everyone else.

We should rededicate ourselves to American democracy where everyone is equal under the law with no exception. My ancestor Christian Bertsch, who fought in the American Revolution, did not take up arms so political scammers, flimflam men, and grifters like Trump could evade justice under a made-up immunity not found in the U.S. Constitution but granted by sycophant judges, who should be removed and replaced by jurists who will affirm that no person is above the law.

Mark C. Miller

Kingsford