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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...

One of the key figures involved in former White House occupant Joe Biden’s thousands of pardons to violent criminals has been terminated. Liz Oyer, the head of the Justice Department’s pardon office, revealed in a LinkedIn post on Friday that she was ousted after three years in the position. “I’m sad to share that I was fired today from the job I have poured my heart and soul into for the last three years,” Oyer wrote on Linkedin. “I am so proud of the team we built in the Office of the Pardon Attorney, who will carry on our important...