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Liz Oyer, DOJ’s former ‘nonpolitical’ pardon attorney, recommended clemency for all 40 federal death row inmates. Biden obliged on 37.

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Expect Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats to deliver another crazed production of confirmation theater Wednesday, rolling out every political weapon in their arsenal to try to block Acting AG Todd Blanche’s promotion to U.S. Attorney General. 

Old, shriveled Dick Durbin, the committee’s ranking member, believes he’s got an ace up his sleeve as Blanche’s confirmation hearing begins Wednesday morning. He’s called Liz Oyer, the Department of Justice’s former “nonpolitical” pardon attorney, to testify. Oyer carries a deep loathing of President Donald Trump and an ax to grind against Blanche. 

In a statement released Tuesday, the Illinois senator asserted that Blanche fired Oyer “for refusing to rubberstamp gun ownership rights to Mel Gibson, a convicted domestic violence abuser and friend of Donald Trump.” Yes, that Mel Gibson — actor and director — who had been barred from purchasing firearms following a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction in 2011. Gibson was one of 10 people who received pardons from the Trump administration last year for their decades-old crimes. 

Oyer was shown the door after she refused to include Gibson on the list of pardons. Blanche signed the firing memo terminating the pardon attorney’s job. 

“I had been asked to recommend restoring the firearm rights of a famous friend of the president who had lost his right to own a gun due to a domestic violence conviction,” Oyer wrote in a self-serving Rolling Stone op-ed. “I declined to do so based on concerns about public safety.”

Oyer didn’t seem to have many concerns about the victims of the 37 convicted killers on federal death row who got a get-out-of-execution card thanks to the pardon attorney’s soft spot for psychopaths. The pardon attorney recommended that then-Attorney General Merrick Garland “encourage” President Joe Biden to “use his clemency power to reassess the 40 remaining federal death sentences through the lens of current policy and practice.” 

“Disparity and undue severity of sentence, which are........

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