Ilya Shapiro's free speech fight.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In January, Shapiro — a prominent lawyer who had just been hired as a law professor at Georgetown — became the center of controversy over his tweet about President Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Plus, a question about how Tangle diversifies its voices.
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| 0:41.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:06.2 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about Ilya Shapiro, the, well, |
| 1:13.6 | going to be a Georgetown law professor who became the center of a pretty big controversy |
| 1:19.0 | that has some free speech and campus culture issues tied into it. |
| 1:24.8 | And we're going to talk about what happens, some views from across the spectrum, |
| 1:28.9 | and obviously my take. Before we jump in, though, we'll start off with some quick hits. |
| 1:41.6 | First up, San Francisco voters recalled District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a progressive who was |
| 1:47.2 | considered soft-on-crime. Meanwhile, Representative Karen Bass, the Democrat from California, |
| 1:52.5 | will face billionaire and former Republican Rick Caruso in a race for mayor of Los Angeles. |
| 1:58.0 | Number two, the World Bank lowered its 2022 global economic growth |
| 2:03.4 | forecast and projected inflation to remain high. Number three, Moderna has released data showing a |
| 2:10.6 | modified version of its COVID-19 vaccine better protected against the Omicron variant than the |
| 2:16.2 | original booster shot. |
| 2:18.5 | Number four, actor and Yuvaldi Texas native Matthew McConaughey pleaded for gun reform in a speech at the White House yesterday. |
| 2:26.2 | Separately, an 11-year-old survivor of the Rob Elementary School shooting will testify before Congress today. |
| 2:32.5 | Number five, John Allen, a retired four-star general and the head of the |
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