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Hawley erupts at Biden pardon attorney over Dylann Roof clemency push

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., grilled former Biden pardon attorney Elizabeth Oyer on Thursday over her recommendation that then-President Joe Biden consider sparing Charleston church killer Dylann Roof from the death penalty, flipping Democrats' star witness into the target of Republican criticism.During the second day of Blanche's Senate confirmation hearing, Hawley, along with several other Republican members, repeatedly pressed Oyer about a November 2024 memorandum recommending clemency for the remaining federal death row inmates, including Roof, who murdered nine Black parishioners during a Bib...