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A woman who attended Harvard's commencement ceremony this past Sunday
after earning a master's degree in psychology from the school couldn't
bear to sit through the entire commencement address delivered by Attorney
General Merrick Garland � and walked out while he was still speaking.

Emma Heussner is based in Washington, D.C., and today works in social
media at The Daily Caller.

She shared on Twitter on Sunday that she had "just walked out of Harvard�s
graduation because I didn�t want to listen to Merrick Garland talk about
himself for 30 minutes" � but also said that what she did hear was "pretty
rich."

Heussner earned a master's degree in psychology from Harvard in 2020.

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"But because of the pandemic, they weren't able to give us a formal
graduation" back then, she told Fox News Digital in a phone interview on
Wednesday.

"So this past Memorial Day weekend in Boston, they were able to give the
class of 2020 and 2021 a graduation, which was great."

"So I went up with my parents. But Harvard did not have tickets for my
parents � so they couldn't go in and watch the [graduation] ceremony," she
said.

Instead, "they had to watch it being broadcast" from another location, she
said.

Heussner said, "I sat there with my classmates for a while" under the hot
sun that day.

She said there were a lot of "graduation formalities," including singing
and Latin pronouncements by various members of the administration and
faculty.

And "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 said.

"I didn't want to be preached to by Merrick Garland."

"But the way it read," she continued, "was very much like, �This country
sucks and you guys can fix it.� "

That "didn't sit right with me," she told Fox News Digital.

She said she thought to herself, "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."

"So it was a very easy decision for me to walk out and meet up with my
parents" instead, she said.

Heussner added of her parents, "They're the ones who were there for me and
who supported me � and I didn't want to be preached to by Merrick Garland,
when he was talking a lot of talk but not really walking the walk that he
was preaching."

Did others walk out with her? She said, "We were sitting in the hot sun
for a while � so unless it was a spectacular speaker, I could see that
people would want to walk out [of a speech like that] for other reasons"
as well, she said.

"I will say that the reaction that I've gotten on the internet has been
kind of funny."

Most people have been supportive, she said � but there have been "some
haters" out there, too.

She said that on Twitter, she started out with about 1,000 followers � but
after going viral for walking out of the commencement amid Garland's
speech, she's now she's up to about 11,000 followers.

She said that most people have been supportive � but there have been "some
haters" out there, too.

Heussner graduated from the University of Alabama in 2018, earning a
degree in psychology. She then went to Harvard for two years to earn a
master's � also in psychology.

She found it a truly liberal university environment. "I've been pretty
good about biting my tongue and keeping my opinions to myself, though I
don't shy away from a debate," she said.

"Garland is such a disappointment � He's no moderate."

She said she took a course through Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
as part of earning her master's degree called "Saving Schools" � and wound
up pivoting more toward politics and policy toward the end of her time at
Harvard. She said she worked for the Trump campaign for a period of time.

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Her parents were there for her at her graduation, she said � "so I was
eager to get back to my parents, since they were the ones who made Harvard
possible," she said.

She said her dad was in the U.S. Army for 30 years and her mom grew up in
the Augusta, Georgia, area.

Commenting on how she left the ceremony amid Garland's commencement
address, William Bennett, former Secretary of Education during the Reagan
Administration, said to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, "Well, good for
her."

Bennett also said, "Garland is such a disappointment � He's no moderate.
This is a replay of Joe Biden in the uniform of the attorney general."

"We've heard all of this before. There is nothing new. �America is a
wreck. Democracy is under threat � January 6 � � My God," said Bennett
about Garland�s speech. "That�s not what you pay all that money for."

Among Garland's other comments at Harvard: "It is a great comfort to see
all of you in your robes. You look like little judges. I feel right at
home," he said. (Some people laughed.)

Garland also said, according to a transcript of his remarks, "When I was
sitting where you are sitting today, there were many things to worry
about. But it never occurred to me that the right to vote would again be
threatened in this country."

Only three conservatives will be giving commencement speeches this
graduation season at top colleges across the nation, according to a
survey.

Garland added, "At the same time that we are witnessing efforts to
undermine the right to vote, we are also witnessing violence and threats
of violence that undermine the rule of law upon which our democracy is
based."

Bennett noted that, according to a new survey, only three conservative
individuals will be giving commencement speeches this graduation season,
apparently, at top colleges across the nation.

In contrast, 53 liberal speakers are slated to headline grad ceremonies
among the top 100 universities, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report,
according to a survey done by Young America�s Foundation.

Of the remaining colleges, speakers chosen to give addresses either had
unclear ideological affiliations, primary speakers weren't yet set for the
commencement � or a university administrator had been chosen as speaker,
according to the Young America's Foundation and as noted by The College
Fix.

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