Seth Barrett Tillman Interviewed in Ami Magazine
I have been honored to work so closely with Seth Barrett Tillman on so many important matters. I learn a lot from Seth about so many substantive areas of the law. But I’ve also learned a lot from Seth about how the world works. Seth has a keen insight into government, politics, and society. Recently, Seth was interviewed by Ami Magazine, a Jewish publication, and shared some of his insights. If you want to understand what makes Tillman tick, read it all. Here are a few excerpts:
Well, sometimes presidents do commit illegalities.
Every administration is going to look back at the alleged wrongs of the prior administration as illegality. Not every mistake and not every policy misjudgment is illegality. As a young adult, I don’t rememÂber our political system being weaponized in this way. Maybe that is because I was very young during Nixon, who certainly made grievous errors.
You might remember that there was a big imbroglio over the leak of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision. Almost immediately, you saw people in the media, including the right-of-center media, talking in the language of criminality—that someone had committed a crime and ought to be prosecuted.
Why do you think that is?
The problem is that a lot of the people in the media today are former state and fedÂeral prosecutors. When you are a former prosecutor and the only thing you know is to prosecute people, it seems that more than a few often forget that there are things that are j
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