Michigan Law Review Volume 74 Issue 3 1976 The Schneiderman Case: An Inside View of the Roosevelt Court Jeffrey F. Liss United States District Court for the District of Columbia Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr Part of the Immigration Law Commons, Military, War, and Peace Commons, National Security Law Commons, and the Supreme Court of the United States Commons Recommended Citation Jeffrey F. Liss, The Schneiderman Case: An Inside View of the Roosevelt Court, 74 MICH. L. REV. 500 (1976). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol74/iss3/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Michigan Law Review at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Michigan Law Review by an authorized editor of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE SCHNEIDERMAN CASE: AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE ROOSEVELT COURT Jeffrey F. Liss* NLY rarely in the study of Supreme Court history do events, O personalities, records, and historical sources converge to afford an intimate view of that institution. Schneiderman v. United States,1 in its own right an important decision in the field of denaturalization law, provides such an opportunity. The manuscript collections of the major adversaries on the Court are well-preserved, 2 and a surviving major figure from among the parties to ·the litigation has provided personal insight into the intricacies of the case. 8 Decided during World War II in a political context that affected the Court's deliberations, if not its ultimate decision, Schneiderman was a source of deep and lasting division in the Roosevelt Court.