Posted on 03/13/2025 6:29:13 PM PDT by kiryandil
The former U.S. pardon attorney, Elizabeth G. Oyer, was terminated Friday after she opposed restoring actor Mel Gibson’s rights to carry a gun, her spokesperson and two Justice Department officials familiar with the matter told NBC News.
A spokesperson for Oyer said that she was not told why she was terminated but that because of the sequence of events she believes her refusal to carry out a request from officials in the deputy attorney general’s office to add Gibson’s name to a list of people to have their gun rights restored may have played a role.
Gibson, a supporter of President Donald Trump, lost his gun rights after a 2011 domestic violence misdemeanor conviction.
In a statement to NBC News, Oyer described a climate of fear within the Justice Department.
“Unfortunately, experienced professionals throughout the Department are afraid to voice their opinions because dissent is being punished,” she said. “Decisions are being made based on relationships and loyalty, not based on facts or expertise or sound analysis, which is very alarming given that what is at stake is our public safety.”
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Weaponized "justice" should be ruthlessly dealt with.
14 years ago——
BUT DOJ doesn’t pursue those who are killing people in NYC subway system-—JUST SAYING.
Insubordination
So apparently “facts or expertise or sound analysis” are what dictate that a 14-year-old misdemeanor conviction is still worth canceling defensive rights over. According to this gaslighter.
I am glad Mel will get his gun rights back. This hag just opposed it because he is a Trump voter.
Great. That’s a great reason to fire her.
No same or similar in the last 14 years for a misdemeanor? Power crazed bitch shouldn’t be a dog catcher, let alone a persecutor.
Send her Tory face to Boston and then send her on a ship to England. Good riddance.
Losing your 2nd A rights over a m=idemeanor is absolute bullshiite.
A political sop thrown to the feminazis.
Shout at your wife, lose your right to defend yourself?
Boston and New York have surrendered to the modern-day Tories.
14 years ago, no less!
A Resistance witch.
Good riddance.
“So apparently “facts or expertise or sound analysis” are what dictate that a 14-year-old misdemeanor conviction is still worth canceling defensive rights over. “
When he plead guilty in 2011 the federal law did not apply to BF/GF relationships. Only in 2022 did congress extend to those relationships.
The onorous “red flag” law needs to be retired...
Also, RICO needs to be retired since it has been used mostly in cases unrelated to the original intent and/or politically tinged...
Exactly.
“she believes her refusal to carry out a request from officials in the deputy attorney general’s office to add Gibson’s name to a list of people to have their gun rights restored may have played a role.”
She is some pardon attorney and did not obey the Deputy AG. And Gibson never did anything. He was a victim of a scamming gold-digging whore in a break up. Plead to a misdemeanor to avoid an impossible, time consuming and expensive trial in feminist California.
Now this extremist radfem thinks she is authorized to override the deputy AG. Good riddance.
Did she have anything to do with any of the pardons Biden’s auto-pen handed out? Or the commutation of sentences for the convicts on death row?
“Shout at your wife, lose your right to defend yourself?”
Nope.
I am glad Mel will get his gun rights back. This hag just opposed it because he is a Trump voter.
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BINGO!
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