The NY Post reports
An administrator at Georgetown University Law School who was criticized for saying that identity politics would lead President Biden to nominate a “lesser black woman” to the Supreme Court has resigned.
Ilya Shapiro, who was reinstated last week as a senior lecturer and executive director at the law school’s Center for the Constitution, stepped down from his role Monday over the fallout from the tweet in January.
He explained that he had only been cleared in the four-month investigation on a “technicality” since he wasn’t yet employed by Georgetown when he criticized the president for limiting his SCOTUS pool by race and sex.
“But after full consideration of the report I received later that afternoon from the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action, or IDEAA, and on consultation with counsel and trusted advisers, I concluded that remaining in my job was untenable,” he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed explaining his decision.
Shapiro had initially been placed on paid leave following the since-deleted tweet, which advocated for Biden to nominate federal Circuit Judge Sri Srinivasan.
https://nypost.com/2022/06/07/georgetown-law-lecturer-ilya-shapiro-resigns-after-scotus-tweet/
