// While I do not proport this as fact, I would like to imagine that Ilya Shapiro is somewhere nodding solemnly in agreement as the opening line to Eminem’s “Cleaning Out My Closet” croons in his headphones.

It has been sad for Ilya Shapiro since he was unjustly attacked for merely trying to minimize the qualifications of President Biden’s then-undisclosed nominee to the Supreme Court by evoking oppression Olympics rhetoric (which, of course, ruled out the potential that the most decorated nominee in the last 30 years or so was chosen based on merit).

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when you’re definitely having a normal one pic.twitter.com/8HdlM3oR2l

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) January 27, 2022

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After this series of tweets landed him in Georgetown’s time-out chair, he recently went to Twitter to sob about how other people get to be big meanies but he can’t:

Ilya Shapiro “trying to get fired for being racist but can’t” is turning into one of my favorite https://t.co/p44hnMmlMi subplots. https://t.co/Od46x42Z5f

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) May 9, 2022

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I know this is a lot to read at once, so I decided to put it into a format that is easier to digest.

Damned Liberal Agenda

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Oh, and in case you were wondering about the protest Mr. Shapiro was talking about:

People are protesting outside Justice Kavanaugh's house. Someone said "But think of his neighbors" and Kavanaugh's neighbor replied "We ARE his neighbors. We organized the protest"

— Chad Loder (@chadloder) May 8, 2022

And — given the Alito leak that Kavanaugh signed off on — it would be pretty weird of him to start complaining about it:

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Oh, it looks like protesting outside of government officials' mansions is an unbroken, deeply-rooted American tradition and the SCOTUS already struck down protest "buffer zones" as unconstitutional. 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/ZOhiovZ3nV

— Chad Loder (@chadloder) May 8, 2022

Don’t you just love when direct action is tied to historicity?

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And to be frank, whatever noise complaints Kavy Baby is getting is kind of tame compared to… you know… the type of behavior people with uteri have and will face if the finished Dobbs opinion looks anything like the draft:

when I was 16 and getting my first birth control prescription at planned parenthood a group of grown men yelled at me on my way in about how I was killing babies so I think it’s fine if Justice Kavanaugh faces the same treatment outside his house right now

— Colleen (@Coll3enG) May 8, 2022

Not sure if SCOTUSblog is gonna tweet that this is a grave sin or whatever — I’ll be chomping on popcorn either way. Maybe Shapiro can do it in their stead and earn the infamy he’s so clearly chasing.

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I need this to be clear: I was done writing this article. Then this happened.

Those reports in conservative outlets that Alito had to take shelter in an undisclosed location seem to stem from @ishapiro comments on a Fox interview.

Now he tells Politico he doesn't remember where he heard that.@joshgerstein @AnthonyAdragna:https://t.co/c9uzsA3Yf1

— Kate Irby (@kateirby) May 9, 2022

When I see someone has a talent for something I give them their props for it — especially when it’s for digging a deeper hole. Now let me hit publish before this gets even worse.

Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

Topics

1st Amendment, Brett Kavanaugh, Courts, Ilya Shapiro, Law Professors, Law Schools, Samuel Alito