The former U.S. pardon attorney has sued the Justice Department, alleging she was wrongly fired last year in the face of pressure from the Trump administration after she refused to recommend that actor Mel Gibson have his gun rights reinstated.
“This case is about much more than what happened to me,” Liz Oyer, who served as pardon attorney between 2022 and March 2025, said in a Thursday statement. “All Americans rely on nonpartisan civil servants to keep them safe and to uphold the law without fear or favor. I was fired because I refused to put politics ahead of my duty to the American people.”
