Former pardon attorney challenges firing after refusing to restore Mel Gibson's gun rights
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Thu, 3 September 2026
3 reports- The Hill18:26first to report
Former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer is suing the Department of Justice (DOJ) over her termination, which took place last year after she refused to recommend that actor Mel Gibson have his gun rights restored. Oyer was dismissed in March 2025, one of many in an early wave of dismissals and reassignments at the DOJ in the...
- The Guardian World19:06
Liz Oyer says department fired her after she refused to recommend restoring gun rights of actor and Trump ally The former pardon attorney for the US justice department, Elizabeth Oyer, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the department and attorney general Todd Blanche, accusing them of “unlawfully” firing her last year after she said she refused to recommend restoring actor Mel Gibson’s gun rights. In the complaint, filed in the US district court for the District of Columbia, Oyer alleges that...
- independent.co.uk22:15
Liz Oyer claims she was told to ignore her concerns because Gibson is an acquaintance of Donald Trump