Georgetown lecturer Ilya Shapiro hopes Supreme Court tweet controversy helps 'broken' political discourse

Ilya Shapiro speaks with Fox News Digital about the Georgetown Law campus uproar over his tweet about President Biden's Supreme Court pick and how to improve American political discourse.

"Well, I'm still going through this storm," he said. "I just think that this is a moment where we can realize as a country, because I think this is bigger than me and Georgetown, that the way we go about discussing matters of great import is broken, and I'm hoping that my experience now can help in some way disrupt that and have people realize that there's a better way of discussing controversies." "Whatever the vehicles might be for changing the way that we address controversies, I'm all for that."

Shapiro, the newly slated executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, has been on administrative leave since last week after he fretted that a "lesser black woman" would get the Supreme Court slot instead of Shapiro's preferred progressive choice. Critics erupted that he was suggesting Biden's choice would be inferior due to her race, but he and his defenders insist he was making a standard critique of affirmative action.