Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Previously he was executive director and senior lecturer at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, and before that a vice president of the Cato Institute.

A GUEST POST BY ILYA SHAPIRO: The End of the Beginning

Into the Weeds

Ilya Shapiro speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo by Gage Skidmore, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. This article was originally published on Shapiro’s Gavel on Substack and is republished here with permission. I was recently invited to participate in a symposium on the future of the conservative legal movement hosted by The…