Liz Oyer served as Pardon Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice from April 2022 to March 2025.

LOS ANGELES, March 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls regrets that Elizabeth Oyer is no longer the U.S. Pardon Attorney.

Elizabeth Oyer says her firing came after she opposed restoring actor and Trump supporter Mel Gibson's gun rights ...

Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, said that she was not told why she was dismissed, but that as events unfolded ...

Elizabeth G. Oyer was sacked after she disallowed actor Mel Gibson his gun rights permit. Speaking to The New York Times on March 10, 2025, she said the incident happened after she disagreed with ...

The Justice Department’s pardon attorney was dismissed a day after she refused to recommend restoring gun rights to actor Mel Gibson, a prominent supporter of President Trump, according to the ...

A pardon attorney for the Justice Department was fired last week, and she suspects it had something to do with refusing to ...

Elizabeth Oyer told the New York Times that Gibson's case came up as part of a wider effort to restore gun rights to people who had been convicted of crimes. Felons are barred from purchasing or ...

Gibson, a supporter of Trump, lost his right to purchase or own a handgun after a 2011 domestic violence misdemeanor ...