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Ilya Shapiro tweeted that Biden would choose a “less black woman” as a Supreme Court justice in January.
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Georgetown Law reinstated its role on June 2 after an investigation and month-long suspension.
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But he withdrew Monday, saying Georgetown Law “does not value freedom of speech.”
A professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, who tweeted that President Joe Biden would elect a “less black woman” to the Supreme Court, resigned Monday after four months in his job.
Ilya Shapiro received widespread criticism in January after he said Biden would throw himself into identity politics when he nominated a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyers, who announced his retirement in January.
Shapiro wrote in now-deleted tweets that Biden’s “best choice” was Sri Srinivasan, the chief judge of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, but that he “does not fit into the latest intersectionality hierarchy, so we get a less black woman.”
William Treanor, dean of Georgetown Law, said at the time that the remarks were “shocking” and Georgetown students later occupied an auditorium to demand Shapiro’s removal.
Shapiro was due to begin his job as an associate professor at Georgetown Law on February 1, but he was immediately put on administrative leave while the university investigated his remarks.
Shapiro sorry for the tweets in the midst of the backlash and called his comments “unartful”.
Georgetown Law ended its investigation and reappointed Shapiro to his role on June 2, but he ended up stopping on Monday, he wrote in a statement from the Wall Street Journal announcing his resignation.
“Dean William Treanor made me aware technically that I was not employed when I tweeted, but [report’s findings] “implicitly repealed Georgetown’s speech and expression policies and set me up for discipline the next time I violate progressive orthodoxy,” he wrote.
“Instead of participating in that slow-motion shooting, I’re resigning.”
IN a follow-up tweet posted MondayShapiro called Georgetown Law “a place that does not value freedom of speech.”
“In the name of the DEI, it suffocates intellectual diversity, undermines equal opportunities and excludes divergent voices,” he said, using the acronym for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Georgetown Law did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Biden ultimately chose Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Breyers at the Supreme Court when he retires this summer. Jackson becomes the first black woman in U.S. history to serve on the Supreme Court.
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