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Story summary
- The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Dylann Roof’s petition to disqualify Judge Richard Gergel.
- The decision leaves the Fourth Circuit ruling that no clear right to recusal exists intact.
- U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Court not to intervene in the recusal dispute.
- Roof, convicted of the 2015 Charleston church shooting that killed nine, received a death sentence in 2017.