Thank you so much for all you are doing. These are such scary times. Daily, I am amazed at the number of people who continue to follow this cult of personality and his minions. I have to believe we will get through this and come out stronger on the other side.
One of the many things I’m looking forward to, once we’re through all of this madness, is seeing where you land! Liz, you’re going to do big, big things for this country ❤️🤍💙.
The details are chilling, Liz. But I am so glad you have turned hardship into opportunity and found your very compelling voice. The Massachusetts Bar Association chose their speaker wisely. Keep up your great work.
Thank you so much for all that you are doing, and—speaking personally—for reminding me that there are worse things than (unjustly) losing your job. I was upset for a very long time about the unkind and graceful exit visited upon me without any justification, but being suddenly punted into retirement, while awful, is nothing like what you have had to endure. And emerge with grace and determination not to be silenced. You exemplify the best things about being a public servant. Please keep writing your splendid columns.
It's going to take a long time to restore any resemblance of ethics to the government. Accountability of the responsible parties and individuals needs to be swift and harsh and punishment to the maximum extent of the law with no chance of parole no pardon no clemency. We are being governed by a pack of thieves and grifters only interested in enriching themselves.
Superb, as always. People like you help me believe that this can all come out right someday, somehow. Though your firing was a rough turn for deserving people seeking pardons, I think the American people are better off for seeing and knowing more of you than they did when you were the Pardon Attorney.
Thank you so very much for this revealing and disturbing reality of how the destruction of the civil service relates to the destruction of democracy and human life. Most of all thank you for rising up in spite of immense pressure and continuing to fight for all of us.
Just like when Turkey and Syria ousted their legal professionals, the playbook was listed for the US too. Lawyers and Judges have the same brain pan potential of MDs, NPs, Architects and Engineers, but I suspect they practice 'radical acceptance' less easily. I believe it may be the makeup of being the elder siblings in our human family, rules based and gifted with most of the parental attention during growth. There isn't much taught to creatively thwart power.
As a (first born) RN to a very mentally ill mother, I had to cope with a different reality when she aged out and my father died 11 years before her. Thankfully, I was connected to an Attorney (eldest of 11, and guardian of 2 sibs) who knew his stuff but with kindness and empathy beyond admiration.
We need our medical folks to come together and we need you and your cohorts to hold against this 'pandemic' of greed and cruelty.
It just makes me more and more angry the more I read in this post. Liz, thank you for standing up for what's right and spreading the word about the incredible corruption going on at the DOJ. I hope it helps, and I hope we can recover from this when this administration is gone.
A horrific personal story—and not just one, but one among many. It slightly even in principle touches stalinist terror; the methodology is there, even if the ”sentences” are far from what happened during the time after the war in our countries (the Eastern block, in our case Hungary), but even worse in the Soviet Union during a chilling period 1935-37.
Thank God we managed to escape 1956 to Sweden. Certainly my father would have been executed, (of diffrent reasons) and certainly my mother’s and my life would have been miserable to an extreme degree.
Dictatorship develops rather quickly, strangely enough. And most people adapt, surprisingly wuickly as well, egotistical reasons prevail, few people are brave enough to become part of a resistance movement, sometimes underground, sometimes overtly.
But at some point, like recently in Hungary, the people had enough, I think sooner or later even the Russian citizens will reach a point, when they will free themselves from the dictatorship of putin.
And even though I am 73, I guess I will live to see trump and his sycophants and heirs bite the dust —and watch decent people like you, Ms Oyer, come back to positions and tasks that you deserve and your compatriots will enjoy to have at all levels, where decency, righteousness and heart counts! I am sure actually…
Thank you so much for all you are doing. These are such scary times. Daily, I am amazed at the number of people who continue to follow this cult of personality and his minions. I have to believe we will get through this and come out stronger on the other side.
One of the many things I’m looking forward to, once we’re through all of this madness, is seeing where you land! Liz, you’re going to do big, big things for this country ❤️🤍💙.
Amen!
We need to support Liz now and in the next administration!
Eloquent. Courageous. I admire you greatly!
The details are chilling, Liz. But I am so glad you have turned hardship into opportunity and found your very compelling voice. The Massachusetts Bar Association chose their speaker wisely. Keep up your great work.
Thank you so much for all that you are doing, and—speaking personally—for reminding me that there are worse things than (unjustly) losing your job. I was upset for a very long time about the unkind and graceful exit visited upon me without any justification, but being suddenly punted into retirement, while awful, is nothing like what you have had to endure. And emerge with grace and determination not to be silenced. You exemplify the best things about being a public servant. Please keep writing your splendid columns.
From Canada - a message to Solicitor Liz Oyer.
Madame Oyer, I just read your article entitled "Calling all lawyers. This is our moment."
From my perspective here, north of you, I am writing to express my admiration for the text you have just written.
Like James Comey, I think "here is another wonderful human being who stands for what is right and just. A person of justice and integrity."
I admire you more than you know for what you have written and hope that many of your compatriots read it and ACT.
What is happening cannot continue to go on. It is too wrong to continue.
Thank you again for this wonderful and inspiring text.
Claude Gravel
Ottawa, Canada
Thank you for keeping us informed. Now go get 'em Lawyer Oyer!
You give me hope 🙏❤️
Thank you for all of your efforts. Carry on.
It's going to take a long time to restore any resemblance of ethics to the government. Accountability of the responsible parties and individuals needs to be swift and harsh and punishment to the maximum extent of the law with no chance of parole no pardon no clemency. We are being governed by a pack of thieves and grifters only interested in enriching themselves.
Superb, as always. People like you help me believe that this can all come out right someday, somehow. Though your firing was a rough turn for deserving people seeking pardons, I think the American people are better off for seeing and knowing more of you than they did when you were the Pardon Attorney.
Thank you for standing up for the rule of law!
Thank you so very much for this revealing and disturbing reality of how the destruction of the civil service relates to the destruction of democracy and human life. Most of all thank you for rising up in spite of immense pressure and continuing to fight for all of us.
Just like when Turkey and Syria ousted their legal professionals, the playbook was listed for the US too. Lawyers and Judges have the same brain pan potential of MDs, NPs, Architects and Engineers, but I suspect they practice 'radical acceptance' less easily. I believe it may be the makeup of being the elder siblings in our human family, rules based and gifted with most of the parental attention during growth. There isn't much taught to creatively thwart power.
As a (first born) RN to a very mentally ill mother, I had to cope with a different reality when she aged out and my father died 11 years before her. Thankfully, I was connected to an Attorney (eldest of 11, and guardian of 2 sibs) who knew his stuff but with kindness and empathy beyond admiration.
We need our medical folks to come together and we need you and your cohorts to hold against this 'pandemic' of greed and cruelty.
Thank you for all you do.
It just makes me more and more angry the more I read in this post. Liz, thank you for standing up for what's right and spreading the word about the incredible corruption going on at the DOJ. I hope it helps, and I hope we can recover from this when this administration is gone.
A horrific personal story—and not just one, but one among many. It slightly even in principle touches stalinist terror; the methodology is there, even if the ”sentences” are far from what happened during the time after the war in our countries (the Eastern block, in our case Hungary), but even worse in the Soviet Union during a chilling period 1935-37.
Thank God we managed to escape 1956 to Sweden. Certainly my father would have been executed, (of diffrent reasons) and certainly my mother’s and my life would have been miserable to an extreme degree.
Dictatorship develops rather quickly, strangely enough. And most people adapt, surprisingly wuickly as well, egotistical reasons prevail, few people are brave enough to become part of a resistance movement, sometimes underground, sometimes overtly.
But at some point, like recently in Hungary, the people had enough, I think sooner or later even the Russian citizens will reach a point, when they will free themselves from the dictatorship of putin.
And even though I am 73, I guess I will live to see trump and his sycophants and heirs bite the dust —and watch decent people like you, Ms Oyer, come back to positions and tasks that you deserve and your compatriots will enjoy to have at all levels, where decency, righteousness and heart counts! I am sure actually…