Georgetown Law lecturer suspended over " we'll get lesser black woman" on SCOTUS tweet

[Demovictory9]

in a tweet posted last week, that has since been deleted, Ilya Shapiro, the incoming executive director of the Center for the Constitution and senior lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center, said Biden will be nominating not "the objectively best pick" but a "lesser" Black woman to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer who will be retiring at the end of the current term.

"Objectively best pick for Biden is Sri Srinivasan, who is solid prog & v smart. Even has identify politics benefit of being first Asian (Indian) American. But alas doesn't fit into the latest intersectionality hierarchy so we'll get lesser black woman. Thank heaven for small favors?" Shapiro said in the tweet, according to a story by Reason he shared on twitter.

Shapiro will remain on leave pending the outcome of an investigation conducted by the university and he will not be on campus, according to William Treanor, dean of Georgetown University Law Center.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lecturer-suspended-over-tweets-criticizing-biden-s-promised-supreme-court-selection/ar-AATnof7

[uponit7771]

1. Good, #RacismIsExpensive

[hlthe2b]

2. What a demented thing to say, but hardly unexpected from this long term Cato Inst. a'hole

[Demovictory9]

4. good reply tweet

Link to tweet

[SheltieLover]

3. Should have been terminated, not suspended!

[intheflow]

7. Agreed.

I thought it probably had to do with tenure or something, but he hasn't even started the job. Surely there's a probationary period for new hires. He should be gone - and should never have been hired in the first place.

[Paladin]

5. How did this shithead get anywhere near Georgetown Law?

Much less the incoming exec. director?

[WHITT]

6. We Already Have A

'lesser black man on the SCOTUS'

[gratuitous]

8. Lawyers Guns & Money is my go-to for law school shenanigans

And sure enough, Ilya Shapiro isn't quite the ivory tower academic you might assume he is just because he has a job at GULC:

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2022/01/ilya-shapiro-gets-suspended-for-doing-one-too-many-racisms

[Sur Zobra]

9. Every SCOTUS pick until Sandra Day O'Connor

was chosen because he was a man, and until Thurgood Marshall, all of the justices were picked because they were white men. But now that black women are included as possible nominees, Ilya Shapiro claims that they are automatically unqualified to be on the Supreme Court.

If that’s not racist reasoning, then I’m a monkey’s uncle. He should be fired for being a racist.