Harvard graduate walks away from ceremony rather than listen to Merrick Garland's commencement speech

A 2020 graduate from Harvard who missed out on getting a formal graduation ceremony due to COVID was finally given that opportunity by the school. But Emma Heussner of The Daily Caller couldn’t bother to sit through the speech that was given by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

So she left. "Just walked out of harvard’s graduation because I didn’t want to listen to merrick garland talk about himself for 30 minutes," Emma Heussner wrote.

In an interview with Fox News, she explained the circumstances leading up to the event. Harvard wanted to give a commencement ceremony to the classes of 2020 and 2021 who missed out on the experience because of the COVID pandemic.

"By the time Merrick Garland finally started speaking, it was very much — I think he was trying to be inspirational and motivating, as in, ‘You guys are responsible for making the world a better place,'" she told the outlet.

But the way Heussner interpreted Garland’s remarks was that the Attorney General saw the country in a negative light. "You're the attorney general — you're someone who could make an immediate difference based on the actions and decisions you make as attorney general," she believes.

With that in mind, she saw it as "very easy" to get up and leave, and go elsewhere to reunite with her parents.

A recording of the 2020/2021 Harvard commencement speech by Merrick Garland  is available on YouTube (2 hours and 52 minutes in).

During the speech he lamented about what he saw as the "right to vote" being threatened in the current political landscape. He also brought the factor of violence (and threats of violence) as something eroding US rule of law. Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post panned Garland’s speech by saying it "does not inspire confidence."

A recent survey sent out to the 2022 graduating class of seniors at Harvard revealed that only 6.4 percent of graduates leaned "conservative" or "very conservative." The majority of graduates who responded to the questionnaire said they were progressives.

The number of students who identified as conservative when they began their study at the prestigious university was 7.1 percent, meaning that Harvard decreased the students' conservatism over their four years at the school.