Ilya Shapiro

Dad x 4. Const Studies @ManhattanInst. Author, Supreme Disorder & Lawless. Tweets on law, liberty, pursuit of happiness. “Dad of the Internet”
Opinions my own.

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

@ReverendWarnock The Court doesn’t believe districts should be drawn based on race, because all citizens have equal rights. It’s a damn shame that US Senator disagrees. Then again, a lot of Georgia Democrats would’ve agreed with you before Jim Crow ended.

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

@JVernonLaw Yes that’s where those products are now. It’s an improvement, and I imagine they’ll continue improving.

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

Egads. Do your own citechecks and don’t lie to courts, people.

[Eric W. @EWess92]

Ninth Circuit published order sanctioning lawyers who repeatedly filed briefs with hallucinated cases and told the court they don't use artificial intelligence? 👀 Let's dive in and see how bad the facts are. First off, it's *another* immigration law firm. Seems to be systemic

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

@bethanyshondark I believe the credited response would be “go fuck yourself and don’t talk to my kids.”

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

Great piece by my colleague Tal Fortgang. I’m working on a review of my own for @ClaremontInst Review of Books.

[Civitas Outlook @CivitasOutlook]

We still live in Scalia's judicial universe.

Contributing editor @tal_fortgang shares his thoughts on @JamesRosenTV’s ‘Scalia: Supreme Court Years 1986-2001’ in a new essay for Civitas Outlook: https://t.co/2807SbGsMn

[Tal Fortgang @tal_fortgang]

Toothless laws invite disorder. My @ManhattanInst model state legislation to combat civil terrorism would restore order by raising penalties for creative violations of “minor” crimes—which have major consequences.

[Jeff Heinzmann @Jeff_Heinzmann]

@ishapiro @BritniDWrites Facts + Law + Logic = @ishapiro tweet

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

@The_Forty_Four

[RNLA ⚖️ @TheRepLawyer]

⚖️RNLA will be covering the @JudiciaryGOP hearing this morning at 10:00 AM ET to consider a Constitutional amendment keeping SCOTUS at nine justices.

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

Randy Barnett’s Felony Review is, in one obvious sense, a sequel to A Life for Liberty: his previous book gave us the intellectual arc, while this one recovers material that couldn’t fit there and brings us down from the heights of constitutional theory to the police station, the courtroom, and the corruption-prone machinery of criminal justice. Alan Dershowitz, who taught Barnett at Harvard Law and wrote the foreword to this book, is exactly right to say that his student’s earlier work gave readers a “top-down view” of the legal system, while Felony Review lets us see it “from the bottom up.”

What makes that bottom-up view so unusual is not merely that Barnett later became a famous law professor. It’s that he first spent four years as a line prosecutor in Cook County, Chicago’s famously crooked legal world. He was not some token federal appointee parachuting in for a résumé line, but an assistant state’s attorney doing the actual work. That’s rare enough among legal academics; it’s unheard of among constitutional scholars. Barnett did more than study institutions. He lived them in their least flattering form: the drudgery, the adrenaline, the tactical lies, the moral ambiguities, and the daily need to separate real cases from garbage. Cook County wasn’t a laboratory of democracy—it was democracy’s underbelly.

The title needs explanation because it captures both the book’s practical focus and its governing metaphor. In Cook County’s “innovative Felony Review system,” Barnett explains, the Chicago Police Department “could file no felony charges without the approval of an assistant state’s attorney.” Felony-review prosecutors worked punishing 12-hour shifts, assessed evidence, interviewed cops and witnesses, approved search warrants, and tried to obtain statements from suspects. “Felony Review meant genuine, authentic review,” Barnett writes, “No rubber-stamping just because the cops had arrested someone.” Indeed, the unit rejected about 40 percent of the cases it got. That’s a marvelous subject for a book because it gets at law before the polished appellate opinions and retrospective moralizing: law as triage, judgment, and character...

Read the rest of my review at Shapiro's Gavel: https://t.co/IeaRjkQtzl

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

Preach! Harmeet’s leadership has been invaluable on antisemitism and other civil-rights violations on college campuses.

[AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon]

No American should live in fear because of his or her beliefs.

In March, @CivilRights @TheJusticeDept sued Harvard for tolerating antisemitic discrimination. Universities must not take taxpayer dollars while ignoring the abuse of Jewish students!

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

@BritniDWrites VA law doesn’t apply to AL, which didn’t enact its map via an illegal attempt to amend the VA constitution. Meanwhile, there was no question that AL properly adopted its map so the only issue was whether it racially discriminated, which it didn’t. Hope that helps.

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

@AlexiLalas Correct

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

And don’t forget our anti-masking model legislation. Someone really ought to investigate it!
https://t.co/VBnXJX9k1j

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

Yo @WIRED. Here is a free scoop for you.

New @ManhattanInst model legislation from @tal_fortgang to combat civil terrorism—now publicly available on our website: https://t.co/TF6GrYGVmD

And if any state legislators around the country are interested in learning more, feel free to DM me. Happy to offer technical policy guidance.

[Tal Fortgang @tal_fortgang]

The Trump administration should be looking at all available tools to fast-track the immigration process for high-skilled law-abiding emigres from collapsing western nations. Among other things, it’s a demographic bulwark against a red-green takeover.

[Manhattan Institute @ManhattanInst]

The Manhattan Institute stands proudly against crime, both "minor" and major.

Thank you for highlighting our work. If you'd like to support our efforts to combat civil terrorism, you can do so here: https://t.co/fpXeKDBVEC

[Rob Luther @RobLutherLawyer]

Congrats to Katie Smithgall Lane —

@georgemasonlaw has produced the most federal judges of any law school in @realDonaldTrump’s second term.

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

Bingo. State legislators, donors, and others who support Western civilization and want America’s great cities to flourish should read and subscribe to @ManhattanInst’s products, including by yours truly and my prolific colleague Tal.

[Tal Fortgang @tal_fortgang]

That's a testament to the big thing the @WIRED pieces gets absolutely right: @ManhattanInst is leading the charge to defend the West, understands our Constitution's system of ordered liberty, and lawmakers consult us because they know we're effective.

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

Yes thanks for the free publicity. Come for the sarcasm, stay for my colleague’s methodical takedown of ideological adversaries who don’t even understand the policy they’re trying to argue against.

[Tal Fortgang @tal_fortgang]

I'm grateful to @WIRED for featuring my state-level work with @ManhattanInst to stamp out civil terrorism. I'd also like to draw some attention to the recurring ways my critics mislead their readers regarding these issues. This article is a perfect example.

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

@Neuro_Rehab_NJ Huh?

[Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro]

Would this hospital accept someone wearing a swastika armband? Because this is the same thing.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Cedars-Sinai Hospital: a Jewish mother was stunned to find a receptionist wearing a keffiyeh while checking her child into a pediatric endocrinology appointment.

Since 10/7, the keffiyeh has increasingly been used at protests and demonstrations where calls for violence against Jews and support for terror groups have been openly expressed, making many Jewish patients feel unwelcome and unsafe.

Why are employees permitted to display politically charged symbols in patient-facing roles at a hospital that serves people of all backgrounds?