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🗓️ 17 June 2022
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Sebastian is joined in-studio by Ilya Shapiro, former Georgetown Law lecturer, about how he was targeted by the university for criticizing Joe Biden's Supreme Court pick, and what it says about the lack of academic freedom across the country
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0:00.0 | You know me guys, I love the long form. That's why we do these |
0:04.6 | American first one on one interviews with the real experts and we get to drill |
0:10.0 | down on the big issues of the day, not just the experts, but sometimes the experts |
0:15.1 | that our news makers themselves and today is one of those cases. Let's tee our |
0:22.4 | guest up with none other than my former Fox colleague, Taka Carson. |
0:27.3 | And so recently Ilya Shapiro was a lecturer at Georgetown Law, one of the most |
0:31.4 | prominent. Then he criticized Joe Biden's decision to nominate a Supreme Court |
0:35.7 | Justice on the basis of race because race is irrelevant to judicial |
0:41.8 | temperament, knowledge, experience, wisdom, etc. For saying that Georgetown Law |
0:46.8 | put Shapiro on leave, they announced a months-long investigation. Now the |
0:50.9 | probe ultimately cleared Shapiro on a technicality, but he says he's leaving |
0:54.2 | the school anyway. And he is with us today, Ilya Shapiro, welcome in |
0:59.9 | studio one on one. Good to be with you, Sab. You joined us for a |
1:03.7 | couple of segments last week. Now we're going to get to go a little bit deeper |
1:07.3 | on your expertise on the Constitution, the Supreme Court. You've written a book |
1:12.6 | called Supreme Disorder, which in itself is quite telling. But let's start at |
1:16.8 | the beginning. How did you get to be where you are today? Where'd you hail |
1:21.0 | for? What have you done for the last few years? Sure. I was born in Moscow, |
1:26.3 | Russia, Moscow, USSR, actually, back then of course. We left when I was four, |
1:32.5 | came to Canada and sort of took a wrong turn at the St. Lawrence Seaway. I've |
1:38.4 | always wanted to be American and so had to immigrate again and finally |
1:42.9 | naturalized seven years ago, went to college and law school in the US and did |
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