The Georgetown University Law Center has placed incoming new hire Ilya Shapiro on administrative leave while the school investigates whether his controversial tweets violate school policies.
Shapiro was placed on leave before his Feb. 1 start date as executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, report Law.com, Reuters, the New York Times and the Washington Post. The New York Times described Shapiro as a “prominent libertarian.”
Shapiro had tweeted last week that objectively, the best U.S. Supreme Court pick by President Joe Biden would be federal appeals Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan, but “we’ll get [a] lesser Black woman” instead.
