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highplainsdem

(55,439 posts)
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 10:06 PM Mar 10

DOJ Official Ousted After Refusing To Recommend Mel Gibson's Gun Rights Be Restored

Source: Mediaite

The pardon attorney for the Department of Justice was dismissed one day after she refused to recommend gun rights be restored to Mel Gibson after he pleaded guilty to a domestic violence charge.

In an interview with The New York Times published on Monday, Elizabeth Oyer said she was not given a reason for her termination, but that it came on the heels of her decision regarding the actor, who pleaded guilty in 2011 to misdemeanor battery of his ex-girlfriend.

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“They sent it back to me saying, ‘We would like you to add Mel Gibson to this memo,’” she stated. A letter from Gibson’s lawyer seeking the restoration of the actor’s gun rights was attached. Oyer refused, and soon received a phone call from an official in Blanche’s office.

“He then essentially explained to me that Mel Gibson has a personal relationship with President Trump and that should be sufficient basis for me to make a recommendation and that I would be wise to make the recommendation,” she said. The next day, Oyer showed up at work and received a letter informing her of her termination.

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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/news/doj-official-ousted-after-refusing-to-recommend-mel-gibsons-gun-rights-be-restored/

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DOJ Official Ousted After Refusing To Recommend Mel Gibson's Gun Rights Be Restored (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 10 OP
But Hunter Biden and a gun... GreenWave Mar 10 #1
"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law" - Oscar R. Benavides Hassin Bin Sober Mar 10 #2
Just garden variety corruption. BurnDoubt Mar 10 #3
"...Gibson has a personal relationship with President Trump..." J_William_Ryan Mar 11 #4
The wife-beaters club. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 11 #5

BurnDoubt

(241 posts)
3. Just garden variety corruption.
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 11:00 PM
Mar 10

Why would anybody enter any agreement or partnership with this administration? Trust dissipates further every day. Why have Law, when Fiat Rules? Deplorable enough for you yet?

J_William_Ryan

(2,646 posts)
4. "...Gibson has a personal relationship with President Trump..."
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 01:41 AM
Mar 11

This alone should be reason to refuse to restore Gibson’s gun rights.

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