Belen Enriquez 🇪🇨🇺🇸

It’s honestly wild watching Liz Oyer — Pardon Karen — rebrand herself as some kind of progressive martyr. People lose jobs every day, but heaven forbid she gets a pink slip. Let’s be clear: under her leadership, more than 7,000 clemency and pardon applications sat collecting dust on her desk. She never showed real courage in that role — never publicly challenged the administration, never went to the media, never created TikTok videos, never truly centered the people impacted. And let’s not forget, she stayed completely silent on some of Biden’s most questionable and high-profile clemencies, like Alex Saab and the so-called Merchant of Death. But now, suddenly, she’s reinvented herself as an opponent of so-called “questionable” pardons and a champion of fines and fees — a stance that’s not only harmful but fundamentally dishonest. And somehow, the progressive left is applauding her like she’s some saintly truth-teller. It’s giving major Shaun King energy — all performance, no substance, and ultimately dangerous to the criminal justice reform movement. Since she was an appointed public official, and served at the direction of the administration that appointed her. Hence, most smart people, when they know a new administration is coming on board, start planning ahead for a cushy job in the private sector. Liz didn’t want Mel Gibson to get his Second Amendment rights back, but had no issue staying silent when the Merchant of Death walked free — and reportedly back to business. Make it make sense. Let’s be real — this lands as also low-key hater energy and thinly veiled shade aimed at Alice Marie Johnson, a Black, formerly incarcerated woman and the current Pardon Czar, who is actually working to free people from prison.