Ilya Shapiro Resigns From Georgetown Law in Scorching LetterSpencer Brown
Jun 06, 2022
Months after being placed on leave at the behest of a woke mob and just days after being reinstated by administrators, Ilya Shapiro resigned from Georgetown on Monday in a scorching resignation letter that laid bare the supposedly prestigious institution's embrace of woke identity politics. Georgetown and its Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Affirmative Action (IDEAA), Shapiro wrote, "no longer stands for tolerance, respect, good faith, self-reflective learning, and generous service to others."
"I cannot again subject my family to the public attacks on my character and livelihood that you and IDEAA have now made foreseeable, indeed inevitable," Shapiro noted. "As a result of the hostile work environment that you and they have created, I have no choice but to resign."
As Townhall reported in January, Shapiro — who had been recently hired as executive director of Georgetown University's Center for the Constitution — tweeted objections to President Joe Biden's choice of then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. Shapiro's legitimate criticisms and questions about why Biden was set on picking a jurist based on their skin color and DNA were quickly attacked by the woke crowd on campus and escalated by administrators who pounced on the opportunity to ding a conservative, no matter how disingenuous the screed. Students circulated a petition for his firing and the dean of the Georgetown University Law Center sent an all-school email condemning — and mischaracterizing — Shapiro’s objection. Georgetown Law administrators put Shapiro on leave while they investigated the trumped-up charges brought only to appease woke future lawyers who asked "where can we cry?" amid their phony outrage.
Then on Friday, as Townhall reported, Shapiro was reinstated by Georgetown Law administrators following their investigation. "I’m gratified that I’ll get to do the job for which I was hired more than four months ago,” Shapiro said last week. “All students in my programs can expect to be accorded the freedom to think and speak freely and to be treated equally: a diversity of ideas will be most welcome."
But on Monday, Shapiro tendered his resignation in a lengthy letter to Georgetown Law administrators explaining why his "remaining at Georgetown has become untenable" — and it's a scorcher.
"Although I celebrated my 'technical victory' in the Wall Street Journal, further analysis shows that you've made it impossible for me to fulfill the duties of my appointed post," Shapiro writes in his letter before outlining the woke nonsense of Georgetown that proved too stifling to allow him to continue:
You cleared me on a jurisdictional technicality, but the IDEAA [Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Affirming Action] Report—and your own statements to the Law Center community—implicitly repealed Georgetown's vaunted Speech and Expression Policy and set me up for discipline the next time I transgress progressive orthodoxy.
You told me when we met last week that you want me to be successful in my new role and that you will "have my back." But instead, you've painted a target on my back such that I could never do the job I was hired for, advancing the mission of the Center for the Constitution.
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Source:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/06/06/ilya-shapiro-resigns-from-georgetown-law-n2608262
