Trump DOJ FIRES Lawyer after DEFYING DOJ!!!

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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 hou