WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Sen. Gary Peters issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) delivered the commencement address at graduation ceremony for the Wayne State University Law School Class of 2026. Peters - a Wayne State law school graduate of the Class of 1989 - reiterated the importance of defending of the rule of law and respecting the oaths they will take as attorneys to uphold the Constitution.
"Our country's founders enshrined in that document the core idea that in the new nation they were creating, no one is above the law, everyone is equal under the law, and everyone is required to follow the law. But without you - attorneys, judges, and legal scholars - the rule of law is at risk of being just an idea, and t...