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A compendium of my writings defending the morality and legality of this program - but also warning that it remains imperiled unless and until Congress passes a law institutionalizing it.

Under the reasoning of the Georgetown University Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity & Affirmative Action (IDEAA) report in the Ilya Shapiro matter, a wide range of public speech criticizing religions, political parties, veterans, etc. could be "prohibit[ed] harassment."

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"Further analysis shows that you’ve made it impossible for me to fulfill the duties of my appointed post," writes Shapiro.

The law school reinstated him on a technicality, but made it clear that they weren't going to uphold the university's free speech policy.

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"I look forward to teaching and engaging in a host of activities relating to constitutional education," said Shapiro.

In 2018, I was shouted down at the CUNY Law School in New York. I've written at some length about the experience, including a law review article in the First Amendment Law Review. Still, nearly four years later, the experience remains surreal. It is difficult to convey what it feels…

"It's too bad that a heckler's veto prevailed here," says Ilya Shapiro.

From Fox News (Jessica Chasmar): Ilya Shapiro, a constitutional scholar who recently found himself in hot water over a tweet about President Biden's Supreme Court nominee, was shouted down by law students in San Francisco, videos show. Shapiro joined a discussion Tuesday afternoon about Justice Stephen Breyer's Supreme Court vacancy…

David Cole, longtime Georgetown law professor who's now the National Legal Director of the ACLU, writes in the New York Review: Shapiro's message was offensive, but if academic freedom is to mean anything, [Shapiro's] two tweets can't be a firing offense. And without academic freedom, the voices suppressed are as…