Loading ...Democrats warn Colorado governor against commuting sentence of election denier (Tina Peters)
Democrats on Capitol Hill are sounding alarms over the potential commutation of an election denier and convicted felon’s sentence in Colorado, warning the state’s Democratic governor that clemency for Tina Peters would undermine the justice system and diminish the gravity of her crimes.
Gov. Jared Polis (D) has been under heavy pressure from President Trump to release Peters, a former county election clerk and ardent Trump supporter serving a nine-year sentence for election tampering in support of Republican efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 defeat. And Polis opened the door wide to that prospect earlier this month, when he suggested the sentence was overly severe for a first-time offender. He’s now weighing his decision.