AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - GOP senators confront former Biden pardon attorney over clemency push for Dylann Roof, federal death row inmates
Republican senators turned a confirmation hearing for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche into a sustained confrontation with the former Biden administration pardon attorney who recommended clemency for all 40 federal death row inmates, including the man who walked into a Charleston, South Carolina, church in 2015 and shot nine Black parishioners to death during Bible […] The post GOP senators confront former Biden pardon attorney over clemency push for Dylann Roof, federal death row inmates appeared first on American Almanac .
Republican senators turned a confirmation hearing for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche into a sustained confrontation with the former Biden administration pardon attorney who recommended clemency for all 40 federal death row inmates, including the man who walked into a Charleston, South Carolina, church in 2015 and shot nine Black parishioners to death during Bible study. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri led the charge Thursday on Capitol Hill, pressing Elizabeth Oyer over a 73-page memorandum she authored in November 2024 that urged President Joe Biden to spare every inmate on the federal death row. Democrats had called Oyer as their chief witness against Blanche's nomination. By the time Republicans finished questioning her, the witness…Open