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At Columbia, Holder encourages graduates to ?re-imagine the law?

By Alliance Alert

Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the Columbia University School of Law Commencement: "Over the past three and a half decades, our legal system has transformed in ways that, while easy to overlook or take for granted, are critically important. . . . Today, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Act ? which the President signed into law last October ? does just that, finally protecting our Nation?s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizens from vicious hate crimes. . . . Young people, it seems to me, are uniquely qualified to re-imagine ? and in doing so, to reinvigorate ? the law and the world. Many of the great social advancements in our Nation?s history were, in no small part, the result of ideas that law school graduates envisioned and, over time, implemented."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 14, 2010 (boomark / email).