Josh Hawley BLASTS Biden Attorney Over Clemency Recommendations

You were President Biden's pardon attorney, is that correct?

I was the Justice Department's pardon attorney.

You recommended, you made clemency recommendations to the White House whether or not to pardon inmates, is that correct?

My job was to make clemency recommendations.

And in that capacity, you recommended that the President of the United States, Joe Biden, grant clemency to all 40 federal death row inmates, all of them, clear them out, correct?

Sir, as I told Chairman Grassley, I'm not free to discuss the recommendations.

Well, that's what your memo says.I mean, we have your memo.Your memo of November 4th, 2024 says, and I quote, disparity and undue severity of sentence, which are present in many, if not all of these cases, have been recognized as grounds for clemency.And you went on to recommend in that memo and a series of other memos that are now recorded and public record, that the president of the United States grant clemency to murderers, rapists, and the most horrible offenders, all of them, clear death row completely out.I'm amazed you've been called here today.I'm absolutely amazed by it.