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WATCH: GOP senators tear into former Biden pardon attorney over push to spare ‘mass murderers’ from death row

Several Republican senators challenged the credibility of the testimony of a former Biden Justice Department official during day two of the Todd Blanche confirmation hearing, pointing to the part she played in the clemency granted to 37 death row inmates.Democrats called Elizabeth Oyer, the former U.S. Pardon Attorney at the Department of Justice, a nonpolitical position she served from April 2022 until March 2025 when then Deputy Attorney General Blanche fired her, which she argued was politically motivated.While Democrats cast the former pardon attorney as evidence Blanche had politicized th...