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2026年9月3日 世界协调时22:32 更新于1小时前
美国华盛顿国会山，2026年7月16日：前司法部赦免事务律师伊丽莎白·奥耶出席美国司法部长提名托德·布兰奇的参议院司法委员会确认听证会第二天。路透社/伊夫林·霍克斯坦/档案照片 购买授权，打开新标签页
华盛顿9月3日路透电 — 这位前美国赦免事务律师已就所谓的非法解雇起诉司法部，此前她表示自己拒绝推荐恢复演员梅尔·吉布森的持枪权——吉布森是总统唐纳德·特朗普的直言不讳的支持者。
这起诉讼是高级政府官员针对特朗普政府所谓非法解雇提起的最新一起诉讼。
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根据周四提交的诉讼文件，2022年至2025年担任赦免事务律师、现已成为特朗普政府和司法部长托德·布兰奇直言不讳批评者的伊丽莎白·奥耶指控，有人要求她无视自己对吉布森家庭暴力史等问题的担忧，并推荐他恢复持枪资格。
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在她拒绝了这一要求，并且也拒绝了布兰奇当时担任副检察长时的一名工作人员的另一项请求后，奥耶收到了安保人员送达的解雇文件。她被告知，将根据特朗普依据宪法第二条赋予的总统职权将其解雇。
“这起案件远不止我个人遭遇的不公，”奥耶在一份声明中说道。“如果像我这样的职业官员因为拒绝为迎合总统的朋友而违反规则就会被解雇，那么给每一位公职人员传递的信息都将清晰可见：对政客的忠诚远比忠于宪法来得重要。”
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司法部并未立即回应置评请求。
奥耶在华盛顿特区联邦法院提起的诉讼请求法院宣布解雇她的行为非法，恢复她的联邦公职身份并补发薪酬。她最初于2025年4月向功绩制度保护委员会对解雇决定提出上诉，此后一名行政法官驳回了她的上诉。
民主党议员于7月传唤奥耶作证，反对布兰奇出任司法部长的提名。在那场听证会上，奥耶重申了自己被非法解雇的指控。就在前一天，布兰奇称奥耶被解雇与吉布森一事无关。
“我对此毫不知情。解雇她的时候，我甚至不知道梅尔·吉布森是谁，也不知道那封信，完全不知道，”他对议员们说道。
他表示，解雇原因部分与她曾向前总统乔·拜登提交的减刑建议有关。奥耶次日对议员们表示，这是她第一次听说自己的解雇与这些减刑建议有关。
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Former US pardon attorney Liz Oyer sues DOJ for unlawful firing
2026-09-03 22:32:37 UTC / Reuters
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff
September 3, 2026 10:32 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
Witness Elizabeth Oyer, former Department of Justice Pardon Attorney, attends the second day of Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for U.S. Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 16, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – The former U.S. pardon attorney has sued the Justice Department over what she calls an unlawful firing after she said she declined to recommend restoring gun rights to actor Mel Gibson, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump.
The suit is the latest by a senior government official against the Trump administration over alleged wrongful termination.
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Elizabeth Oyer, who served as pardon attorney from 2022-2025 and has become an outspoken critic of the administration and Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleged she was asked to ignore her concerns about Gibson’s history of domestic violence, among other issues, and recommend he regain firearm access, according to the suit filed on Thursday.
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After she refused, and refused another request from a staff member of Blanche, then the deputy attorney general, Oyer received termination papers from security officers. She was told she was being fired under Trump’s Article 2 authority, a section of the Constitution that establishes the presidency.
“This case is about much more than what happened to me,” Oyer said in a statement. “If career officials like me can be fired for refusing to bend the rules to serve the president’s friends, then the message to every public servant is clear: loyalty to a politician matters more than loyalty to the Constitution.”
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The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Oyer’s suit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., is seeking an order that declares her removal was unlawful, reinstates her federal service and restores her pay. She originally appealed her firing to the Merit Systems Protection Board in April 2025, after which an administrative judge dismissed her appeal.
Democratic lawmakers called Oyer to give testimony in July in opposition to Blanche’s nomination for attorney general. During that hearing, Oyer repeated her wrongful termination allegations. The day prior, Blanche said Oyer had been fired for reasons unrelated to Gibson.
“I didn’t even know of that. I had known nothing about Mel Gibson or that letter when I fired her. Nothing,” he told lawmakers.
He said it was instead in part related to commutation recommendations she had provided to former President Joe Biden. Oyer told lawmakers the next day that was the first time she heard her firing related to those recommendations.
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