Trump DOJ FIRES Lawyer after DEFYING DOJ!!!

Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian cover former U.S. Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer's lawsuit against the DOJ and Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging she was fired within hours of refusing to recommend restoring Mel Gibson's gun rights. Brian traces the underlying conviction: Gibson pleaded no contest to misdemeanor domestic violence battery after a 2010 incident with then-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva that knocked out several of her teeth, a conviction that triggered the federal Lautenberg Amendment and stripped his firearm rights permanently. Shant explains how, weeks into Trump's second term, Oyer's office compiled a vetted list of roughly 95 people whose gun rights might reasonably be restored, only for Blanche's staff to narrow it to nine names and then order Gibson added because of his personal relationship with Trump, who had just named him a "Hollywood ambassador." Brian details Oyer's refusal, her memo declining to recommend Gibson, and her termination roughly three hours later by DOJ security officers who offered no explanation, despite Blanche later telling senators under oath he knew nothing about Gibson when he fired her. Shant notes Oyer's replacement, Ed Martin, has openly described his approach to pardons as "no MAGA left behind," and highlights her broader claims: violations of the Civil Service Reform Act, the Fifth Amendment, the First Amendment, and the Administrative Procedures Act. Brian's bottom line: restoring a movie star's gun rights became a higher priority for this DOJ than following its own review process.

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