From April 2022 to March 2025, Liz Oyer worked as a pardon lawyer in the US Justice Ministry.
In the course of American history and regardless of the President’s policy, the task of the Ministry of Justice was to maintain the rule of law. And to ensure the security of our country and to protect civil rights. All Americans should be concerned that the politically appointed head of the ministry now keep an aggressive campaign to free the institution of impartial experts. And to replace them with political loyalists who are willing to provide the president’s personal interests about these common values.
My recent dismissal by the deputy Minister of Justice Todd Blanche Is just an example. But it is worth taking a closer look if we want to reverse this dangerous and destructive course. Before it’s too late.
On March 7th, Blanche sent me a three -part memo that my work as a pardon lawyer of the Ministry of Justice ended. Blanche did not give me the letter of termination personally. Instead, he sent two security officers to whom the task was literally uncomfortable to carry out his instructions. I never met Blanche. He never said why he fired me. But he swears that it had nothing to do with the fact that I refused, a friend of his boss and greatest client, President Donald Trumpto do a political favor.
All now the president’s lawyers
The three highest officials in the Ministry of Justice – Blanche, the Attorney General Pam Bondi And the incumbent deputy attorney general Emil Bove – have all achieved their influential positions after working as a personal lawyer for President Trump. They were paid to fulfill the president’s wishes. And have gained access and influence. Therefore, it may not be surprising that you consider the Ministry and its 115,000 employees as President Trump’s personal law firm. On her first day in office, Bondi gave one Notificationin which she pointed out the entire workforce of the Ministry of Justice that we are now all the president’s lawyers.
Since then we have been warned both expressly and by examples that we “Delimed up” And be silenced if we do not follow the president’s instructions “loyal” and “eagerly”. This is classic bullying. From a team that learned from the best. We were never asked for our contribution. for our expertise. Or recognized for our services for the country. Instead, the leadership of the ministry goes through the list of career officials to find those whose apolitical status can be exploited to give decisions that are in reality political transactions to paint legitimacy.
Nobody told me why I was fired
Nobody told me why I was fired. But the termination was delivered to me after a few hours after I I rejected it to reintroduce the gun rights a famous friend of the President, the actor Mel Gibsonrecommend. Mel Gibson has a history of violence against women. In 2011, Mel Gibson owed himself guilty of beating his former partner. She stated that he beat her while holding her baby in her arms. And her teeth knocked out.
Mel Gibson is also known for an incident from 2006, in which he insulted a police officer who had arrested him at the wheel for drunkenness. Shortly after I had informed the employee of the Deputy General Prosecutor that I could not recommend the rearmament of this specific tyrant, I received my termination.
I decided to make this story public because it is part of an ubiquitous and dangerous phenomenon that occurs throughout the Ministry of Justice. Through unchecked bullying, the political managers of the ministry are pushing employees with many years of professional experience. They tear off ethical guardrails and offer loyalists and friends priority access to government services. I am deeply concerned that the institution that has been created to maintain our laws and protect our civil rights is destroyed from the inside out of those who are entrusted with their protection.
“To enforce the immigration laws of our nation”
When I went to the public, Blanche gave a reaction of the kind of himself that you would expect from someone who has no principal position on which he can rest.
He said: “Former employees who violate their ethical duties by raising incorrect allegations on press tours are not tolerated. The version of the events of this former employee is wrong. Her decision to express this wrong accusation of her dismissal violates her ethical duties as a lawyer. And in a shape from our important task to pursue violent crimes, to enforce the immigration laws of our nation and make America safe again. ”
This is a classic reaction of a tyrant. It consists of three elements. He lies (he describes my story as “wrong”, even though he knows better). He threatens (with the vague but ominous formulation “is not tolerated”). And then he turns me down by claiming moral superiority. It describes my behavior as “a shameful distraction” of the principal and important matters on which he supposedly works. What a guy.
A practical result of my discharge
Strangely enough, I blanche blanche, although the Ministry of Justice has the memos and emails that tell the whole story. Two of Blanche’s leading employees are responsible for this correspondence. On the other hand, I have no access to anything to defend myself. A practical result of my discharge. This is another bullying tactics. The defense is eliminated by cutting access to resources (in this case only at the facts).
Perhaps because lies and threats have become a standard repertoire of the current Ministry of Justice, the last part of Blanche’s statement is the most shocking. Blanche shows the concern that the ministry is going too quickly to put convicted domestic violent offenders in their hands in a terrifying way. And describes this as “distraction”.
This is difficult to reconcile with Blanche’s alleged concerns about violent crimes and public security. Almost half of all women murdered in the United States are killed by an intimate partner. And more than 50 percent of these killings are committed with firearms. The access of a perpetrator to a firearm increases the likelihood that a victim of domestic violence will be killed in terms of five times.
I would say, Mr. Blanche, that it is shameful to use the judicial system to prove political favors and friends. And CH would say that it is shameful to push the firm employees who are seriously committed to the security of our country and the protection of our civil rights. I would say, Mr. Blanche, that the shame is on them.