In a since-deleted tweet, Ilya Shapiro wrote the next Justice “will always have an asterisk attached.”
. “I meant no offense, but it was an inartful tweet,” he wrote.today that Shapiro’s “tweets are antithetical to the work we do here every day to build inclusion, belonging, and respect for diversity.”
Shapiro, who previously was a vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute, has made past derogatory remarks about nominating a woman of color to the Supreme Court. In 2009, he wrote in athat then-judge and now-Justice Sonia Sotomayor “would not have even been on the short list if she were not Hispanic.
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