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🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 99 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations. |
0:07.0 | Hey everyone on Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show and happy Friday. |
0:17.1 | We begin today with an exclusive interview of a victory for free speech and an important |
0:22.5 | defeat for the cancel culture mob. |
0:25.2 | We first told you about the case of constitutional law expert Ilya Shapiro back in February. |
0:30.8 | He had recently been hired by Georgetown law, but just days before he was scheduled to start |
0:36.0 | his new job, Ilya sent out a tweet, questioning President Biden's decision to limit who he |
0:42.0 | would be considering for the soon to be vacant Supreme Court seat based on their race and |
0:48.3 | their sex. |
0:49.6 | The tweet received immediate pushback, and while Shapiro repeatedly apologized saying he had |
0:54.3 | phrased it in artfully, there was a reference to quote a lesser black woman. |
0:59.2 | It wasn't enough for the vultures who demanded that Georgetown revoke his employment contract |
1:04.7 | four months of investigation of his tweet followed until Georgetown finally said yesterday |
1:13.2 | that he could start the job he had been hired to do with some caveats. |
1:18.1 | Today, Ilya officially begins his job as executive director of the Center for the Constitution |
1:24.0 | and senior lecturer at the Georgetown University Law Center, and this is his first interview |
1:29.3 | about it. |
1:34.3 | Ilya, thank you so much for being here. |
1:36.4 | Great to be with you, Megan. |
1:38.3 | Congrats on your victory. |
1:40.6 | Thank you. |
1:41.6 | As I wrote in the Wall Street Journal, as a technical victory, not quite a victory for |
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