I don’t think it’s coincidental that this was announced this week.

Every single day, the president of the United States finds new ways to trample rights and undermine the rule of law.

Right now, more than any other time in my lifetime, we need you to live up to the oath that you're about to make. Because, I have to be honest with you: You are graduating into a genuine emergency.

It's a flagrant betrayal of the oath they took as lawyers.

This is what the crumbling of rule of law looks like in real time. And it's exactly what the founders of this nation feared: A tyrant, abusing power to persecute scapegoats and enemies.

Some would say, 'Boy, this is getting way too political for a commencement address.' But I would argue: I wouldn't be honoring my oath if I didn't address this head on.

Donald Trump is trying to remake the executive office into one that is immune from outside accountability.

My answer? Everything we hold faith in across this country — including our economy — is glued together by law.

He's engaging in unprecedented overreach that disregards the rule of law and pretends as if the independent judiciary is a bug rather than a feature of our system.

Who's the roadkill with Trump's tariffs? The small businesses. The small farmers. The consumers who are facing a $4,000 tariff tax.

SNAP doesn't enable dependence, it enables resilience. And here's the deeper truth: Access to food is not a privilege.

Yes, we would have been better served by a primary. But we are where we are.

The American people that this bill was crafted for may not have an army of D.C. lobbyists to defend them but they do have us, and they do have President Trump.

The cut you are proposing to SNAP tonight would be the largest rollback of an anti-hunger program in our nation's history.

unprecedented overreach

This means more seniors, veterans, people with disabilities and children will go to bed hungry. It means farmers, who are already operating on razor-thin margins, will see billions in lost revenue.

It blew me away when he said 'I'm going to become good at volleyball,' and he did it.

Here's the thing that's so encouraging about human nature, the vast majority of people had [a positive reaction] no matter the politics.