Congratulations to the class of 2016. Today is your day of celebration and youve earned it. The voices crying for peace and light, because your choices will make all the difference to you and to all of us. Dont be afraid to take on cases or a new job or a new issue that really stretches your boundary. You spend your summer abroad real ships rather than internships, and the specter of living in your parents basement after this Graduation Day is not likely to be of greatest conce concern. Watch commencement the streets to the class of 2016 in their entirety from colleges and universities around the country by business leaders, politicians and white house officials. On cspan. Antenna on cspan2 take a live to a forum on Community Organizing and civic mobilization. 17 citizen groups will be speaking today and will be hearing opening and Closing Remarks from ralph nader, author, activist and former president ial candidate, this is being hosted by the center for the study of responsive law at
Itself issues. Texas a quand m, university of texas at austin, the university of houston, other institutions, these arell public universities. And these individuals, these students, pay tuition to go to these public universities. And in response, theyre issued identification vehicles. Identification cards. But the state of texas has seen fit to say, thats not valid in order to vote. And i think that one example, and weve heard several others, basically exposes the fact that the movement to impose voter identification requirements is a fraud itself. Its a sham. The whole argument behind it is that were trying to protect the integrity of the Voting System. Heres the problem. Youre protecting the integrity of the Voting System by imposing a solution in search of a problem. Because none of these individuals in any of these states has been able to produce a scintilla of evidence of fraud. In fact, there are studies that have shown that there have been over a billion instances of americans e