{"id":35712,"date":"2025-03-11T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/doj-official-says-she-was-fired-after-refusing-to-restore-mel-gibsons-gun-rights\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T14:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:31:06","slug":"doj-official-says-she-was-fired-after-refusing-to-restore-mel-gibsons-gun-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/doj-official-says-she-was-fired-after-refusing-to-restore-mel-gibsons-gun-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"DoJ official says she was fired after refusing to restore Mel Gibson\u2019s gun rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Oyer claims justice department senior \u2018bullied\u2019 her due to Trump\u2019s relationship with actor sentenced for domestic violence in 2011<\/p>\n<p>The pardon attorney of the US justice department was recently fired after refusing to recommend that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/melgibson\">Mel Gibson<\/a> be allowed to own guns again, a right denied since the actor, director and prominent ally of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2011\/apr\/22\/mel-gibson-voicemail-recordings\">sentenced<\/a> to probation for domestic violence in 2011, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/us\/politics\/justice-department-mel-gibson.html\">New York Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The pardon attorney is a non-political role, supervising matters of clemency and recommendations for presidential pardons. Elizabeth Oyer was appointed under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s presidency in 2022. She told the Times she had been working on a project to restore gun ownership rights to some people convicted of crimes and misdemeanors, a power held by the justice department but not often used.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/11\/doj-official-fired-mel-gibson-gun\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Oyer claims justice department senior \u2018bullied\u2019 her due to Trump\u2019s relationship with actor sentenced for domestic violence in 2011 The pardon attorney of the US justice department was recently fired after refusing to recommend that Mel Gibson be allowed to own guns again, a right denied since the actor, director and prominent ally of &#8230; <a title=\"DoJ official says she was fired after refusing to restore Mel Gibson\u2019s gun rights\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/doj-official-says-she-was-fired-after-refusing-to-restore-mel-gibsons-gun-rights\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about DoJ official says she was fired after refusing to restore Mel Gibson\u2019s gun rights\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}