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That's V-A-N-T-A-com slash G-O. Welcome to the Federalist Radio Hour.

I am Joy Pullman, the executive editor here at The Federalist.

I'm joined today by one of our many longtime contributors, Ilya Shapiro.

He is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. And he's also the author of the recent book Lawless, The Miseducation of America's Elieets. And that's what we're here to talk about today. Ilya, welcome. Good to be with you. Good to be back on the radio hour. It's been a while.

It's great to hear your voice. Great to talk to you. How welcome you back to our listeners. Can you start by giving our listeners kind of the elevator pitch version of your cancellation story from Georgetown law?

Sure, sure. Well, I had worked at the Cato Institute, Libertarian Think Tank in D.C. for nearly 15 years and got the opportunity to take my career in a new direction. I was hired to be the executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution at Georgetown's Law School and a senior lecturer there. So I'd be teaching classes, organizing student programs, publishing, going on TV,

advocating for originalism, all of these sorts of good things, kind of a different kind of impact than working at a think tank. On the eve, a few days before I was due to start that job in January

of 2022, Justice Breyer announced his retirement. In the subject of my last book, Supreme

Disorder was about Supreme Court politics, judicial nominations, all of that good stuff. So this was

my bread and butter. I was doing media all day. And that evening, I was on the road. I was in

Austin, Texas. If I hadn't been on the road, this probably wouldn't happen because I would have been

spending time with my kids and gone to bed early and whatnot. But I went back to my hotel room

after dinner with friends, and I was feeling festive and feisty and doom-scrolling Twitter,

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