The Trump administration-led justice department planned to send armed US marshals to deliver a letter warning a career pardon attorney about testifying to Congress after she says she was fired over a case involving the actor Mel Gibson, her lawyer said in a letter seen by Reuters on Monday. "This highly unusual step of directing armed law enforcement officers to the home of a former Department of Justice employee who has engaged in no misconduct, let alone criminal conduct, simply to deliver a letter, is both unprecedented and completely inappropriate," Michael Bromwich, a lawyer representing the fired pardon attorney Liz Oyer, wrote to the justice department.
Oyer, who served as the pardon attorney during Joe Biden's presidency, was one of several career officials fired by the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, on 7 March.
Oyer has since told various media outlets that her firing came shortly after she declined to recommend restoring gun rights to Gibson, the star of Braveheart as well as a supporter of Donald Trump.
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