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 polit