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Georgetown Puts Ilya Shapiro on Administrative Leave for Criticizing Biden Supreme Court Promise
President has pledged to nominate a black woman to Supreme Court
Ilya Shapiro, the Georgetown University law professor who criticized Joe Biden's pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court, has been placed on administrative leave, the school announced Monday.
William Treanor, the dean of Georgetown University Law Center, told the law school in an email that Shapiro would remain on leave "pending an investigation into whether he violated our policies and expectations on professional conduct, non-discrimination, and anti-harassment." Until the investigation is concluded, Treanor said, Shapiro "will not be on campus."
The move comes in response to widespread outrage from Georgetown law students, who launched multiple petitions that called for Shapiro to be fired after his posts on Biden's decision to base his Supreme Court nomination on race and gender. One petition, which garnered more than 350 signatures in 24 hours, said Shapiro's views were "antithetical to Georgetown Law's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion" and asked the school to "reconsider the decision to hire" him.
Another petition, from Georgetown's Black Law Students Association, criticized Treanor for sending only "a barebones email" in the wake of Shapiro's "offensive statements." In that email, Treanor said that Shapiro's "appalling" and "demeaning" words were "at odds with everything" the law school stands for.
Treanor's latest announcement acknowledged those petitions and regurgitated parts of their language. "Over the past several days, I have heard the pain and outrage of so many at Georgetown Law, and particularly from our Black female students, staff, alumni, and faculty," Treanor said. "Ilya Shapiro's tweets are antithetical to the work that we do here every day to build inclusion, belonging, and respect for diversity."
Shapiro tweeted on Jan. 26 that the "objectively best pick" to replace Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer is Sri Srinivasan, an Indian-American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. He's a "solid prog[ressive] & v[ery] smart," Shapiro wrote. "Even has identity politics benefit of being first Asian (Indian) American. But alas doesn't fit into latest intersectionality hierarchy so we'll get [a] lesser black woman." Shapiro later apologized for his "poorly drafted" tweets.
The university has not always been so quick to police its professors' social media. In 2018, Georgetown security studies professor Christine Fair tweeted that supporters of Brett Kavanaught's confirmation "deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps." As a "bonus," she said, "we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine." Though Twitter temporarily suspended Fair, the university took no action against her.
"Our policy does not prohibit speech based on the person presenting ideas or the content of those ideas," a Georgetown spokesperson told Fox News, "even when those ideas may be difficult, controversial, or objectionable."
Georgetown did not respond to a request for comment about whether its policy had changed.
Published under: Georgetown University, Law Schools, Supreme Court, Woke
Ted Cruz: Nominating Black Woman To Supreme Court Is 'Actually An Insult To Black Women'
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) drew anger on Monday as he joined the chorus of criticism from conservatives over President Joe Biden’s vow to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court.
“The fact that he’s willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a Black woman, I gotta say that’s offensive,” the senator said on his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz.”
Cruz said it’s “actually an insult to Black women” that Biden has promised to nominate a Black woman to fill retiring Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat on the Supreme Court, claiming that the president was “not even pretending” to say his nominee would be the most qualified.
“He’s saying, ‘If you’re a white guy, tough luck. If you’re a white woman, tough luck. You don’t qualify,’” Cruz added.
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Cruz’s comments went viral on Twitter.
“The only thing insulting to this Black woman is Ted Cruz thinking he speaks for us,” Rep. Marilyn Strickland (D-Wash.) responded.
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) accused Senate Republicans of “disgracing themselves” with the attacks on the “important milestone in American history.”
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
Ben Carson: Biden Has Forever ‘Tainted’ the Public Image of Whichever Black Woman He Nominates to SCOTUS
By Craig Bannister | February 1, 2022 | 10:03am EST
(Screenshot)President Joe Biden has unfairly and forever tainted the public’s trust and image of whichever Black woman he nominates to the Supreme Court, former HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson says.
Americans are “pushing back against these policies that are just race-based and that are serving to divide our nation. They’re not useful, whatsoever,” Dr. Carson told Fox & Friends First on Monday, commenting on President Joe Biden’s public announcement that he will nominate a Supreme Court justice based on race and sex.
“And, all this radicalism is waking people up. And, I that’s a good thing. It’s always darkest before the dawn. And, I believe the dawn is coming,” Dr. Carson said, calling on Americans to take action at the voting booth to address the harmful effects of identity politics.
Biden was “unfair” to whichever Black woman he picks, because he has forever tainted her image by publicly announcing beforehand that his selection will be based on the nominee’s race and sex.
If Biden had simply nominated a Black woman without saying he was basing his choice on race and sex, the majority of Americans would have been fine with it – but, now they will always assume that she was not the most qualified candidate – even if she was, Carson said:
“And, it really is unfair to whoever he picks, if it is an African-American woman, because people will, from now on, believe that they were not the most qualified candidate, and they may have been.
“But, now they’re going to be tainted. And, that’s unfair.”
76% of Americans Don’t Want Biden to Consider Only Black Women for SCOTUS, ABC News Poll Shows
By Craig Bannister | January 31, 2022 | 11:59am EST
Pres. Joe Biden(Screenshot)President Joe Biden has promised to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court – but, three-quarters of Americans don’t want him to pick from a pool of only Black women, instead of choosing from among all qualified candidates, a new ABC-Ipsos poll reveals.
Last Thursday, Pres. Biden announced that his upcoming Supreme Court nominee will be a Black woman “because it’s long overdue,” but that he doesn’t know who that’ll be, Fox News reports:
"I've made no decision except one: The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court," Biden said. "It's long overdue, in my view."
“Majority of Americans want Biden to consider 'all possible nominees' for Supreme Court vacancy: POLL,” the headline of a ABC News article published Saturday announced.
That “majority”: 76%.
The national ABC News-Ipsos poll of American adults, conducted asked January 28-29, asked:
“To fill the opening on the U.S. Supreme Court, do you think Joe Biden should:
“Consider all possible nominees or
“Consider only nominees who are Black women, as he has pledged to do.”
Just over three-quarters of Americans (76%) want Pres. Biden to consider all qualified candidates, not just Black women, while 23% say he should follow through with his promise to discriminate on the basis of race and gender.
“An ABC News/Ipsos poll says a plurality of the U.S. views the court as partisan,” ABC News notes, citing a separate question in its poll:
“Also, when it comes to assessments of the Supreme Court, 43% of voters believe justices rule ‘on the basis of their partisan political views’ rather than ‘on the basis of the law,’ a position held by only 38% of respondents. Eighteen percent did not know enough to express a view one way or the other.”
While, technically, this represents a “plurality,” a majority of those who actually expressed an opinion said they believe that justices base their rulings on their personal, partisan political view (43% of out the 81% who voiced a view).
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