Why Georgetown Shouldn’t Have Put Ilya Shapiro on Leave 

Ilya Shapiro, the newly slated executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, has been on administrative leave since last week after publishing several tweets criticizing President Biden’s promise to nominate a Black woman to fill Justice Breyer’s Supreme Court seat. John explains why Georgetown put Ilya Shapiro on leave but shouldn’t have.

Mark and Vec also discuss Philip Hamburger’s recent op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on keeping intolerant lawyers off the bench. Professor Hamburger discusses, in the context of the Ilya Shapiro news, what should be done about law school deans and others in legal institutions who censor, cancel, and otherwise blacklist others for their opinion. 

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