In connection with my amicus filings, I found myself on an enemies list. See, e.g., NARAL, The Insidious Power of the Anti-Choice Movement 7 (2018) (citing Tillman’s publications, and amicus briefs filed jointly with the Judicial Education Project and Carrie Severino, Esq.); see also, e.g., James Hohmann, Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Trump ballot access case—2/8, Washington Post (Feb. 8, 2024) (“Hilariously, this is an argument that was actually pushed by this obscure assistant [Tillman adding: associate] professor in Ireland at a law school. His name is Seth Tillman. And he has been writing these law review articles for decades. He was dismissed as a crackpot. People made fun of him.”) (1:04:20ff); id. at 3:29:35 (“pretty obscure Irish legal academic”). For what it is worth, I am a US citizen living abroad, and I am also a legal academic affiliated with an Irish university. Even the foreign media has made efforts to get their digs in. See, e.g., Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, Episode 221: The Rest Is Politics (Feb. 21, 2024) (at 36:00–39:00) (citing Tillman’s scholarship’s role in Trump’s election and Section-3 litigation, and characterizing Tillman as a “constitutional fundamentalist”); see also, e.g., Sun Chenghao, 最高法院与特朗普参选资格：争议、走向与影响 / The Supreme Court and Trump’s candidacy: controversy, trends and impact, 美国观察 / American Observer #89, Jan. 19, 2024 (characterizing my co-authored scholarship as the work of “hardline conservatives”). Social media, although not quite an enemies list, was a place for playground level name-calling by domestic and foreign academics. See, e.g., Professor Laurence H. Tribe (Harvard Law School) (@tribelaw), X (formerly Twitter) (Sept. 1, 2017, 7:20 PM), https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/903804726717841409 [https://perma.cc/GS65-VAYA] (“Another devastating critique of Tillmania by @jedshug.” (emphasis added)); Shane Glackin, Senior Lecturer (University of Exeter, Philosophy) (@eltorosolo.bsky.social) Bluesky (Jan. 28, 2025, 2:06 PM) (reproducing Glackin’s tweet at bottom of Tillman’s post). And sometimes, the glass is half-full. Compare Professor Akhil Amar (Yale Law School) in Charlie Savage, Offbeat Interpretation From Legal Outsider Could Shape Election, New York Times, Feb. 8, 2024, A21 (Amar opining that Tillman’s position is a “gimmick”), with id. (Amar further opining that Tillman is “brilliant” and “one of the genuinely interesting people in the world”).
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