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Eugene

(66,737 posts) Wed Dec 24, 2025, 05:54 PM 13 hrs ago

Tina Peters asks Colorado appeals court to recognize Trump's pardon, release her from prison

Source: Associated Press

Tina Peters asks Colorado appeals court to recognize Trump’s pardon, release her from prison

By COLLEEN SLEVIN
Updated 5:36 PM EST, December 24, 2025

DENVER (AP) — Former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters is asking the state appeals court to recognize President Donald Trump’s pardon of her state convictions as valid.

In a motion Tuesday, Peters’ lawyers said the Colorado appeals court no longer has jurisdiction over her case because of a Dec. 5 pardon issued by Trump. They also asked the court to release her from prison because of the pardon.

Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado clerk, was convicted of state crimes there for orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race. Trump’s pardon power does not extend to state crimes.

In the court filing, Peters’ lawyers argued that President George Washington issued pardons to people convicted of both state and federal crimes in the Whiskey Rebellion in 1795. They urged the state appeals court to issue a ruling quickly. The court is set to hear arguments from lawyers in Peters’ appeal of her conviction on Jan. 14.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-pardon-tina-peters-colorado-appeal-28b86c413ae9d112931aaf3fb5a1abd3

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Tina Peters asks Colorado appeals court to recognize Trump's pardon, release her from prison (Original Post) Eugene 13 hrs ago OP

WTF? malaise 12 hrs ago #1

Tina Peters' attorney is backing the idea of President Trump using a military raid to free her from a prison in Colorado Celerity 8 hrs ago #11

Hope he loses tgat license malaise 45 min ago #15

Yeah, good luck with getting Colorado to give up its sovereignty, Mysterian 12 hrs ago #2

Uh, no and no... wcmagumba 12 hrs ago #3

Just cuz she's stupid enough to believe Trump when he said he'd protect her from prosecution Attilatheblond 12 hrs ago #4

MaddowBlog-Colorado rebuffs Trump effort to transfer Tina Peters to federal custody LetMyPeopleVote 12 hrs ago #5

TY.. Hope she stays in Prison.. Peters earned it. Cha 11 hrs ago #8

Yeah, that will work... :sarcasm: This idiot really thinks there are no consequences to cursing out hlthe2b 12 hrs ago #6

Very nice to know she is NOT HAPPY!! Now bluestarone 12 hrs ago #7

They don't believe the law applies to them. Baitball Blogger 10 hrs ago #9

LOCK HER UP NameAlreadyTaken 10 hrs ago #10

NO NO NO NO NO orangecrush 7 hrs ago #12

She ain't going nowhere. Stupid magats. GoodRaisin 3 hrs ago #13

Next impeachment DFW 2 hrs ago #14

Weak on Crime Republicans! Emile 19 min ago #16

Yeah that's not how POTUS pardons work Tina. yellowcanine 19 min ago #17

malaise

(292,272 posts)

1. WTF?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 06:00 PM

12 hrs ago

That is all

Celerity

(53,552 posts)

11. Tina Peters' attorney is backing the idea of President Trump using a military raid to free her from a prison in Colorado

Reply to malaise (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 10:13 PM

8 hrs ago

malaise

(292,272 posts)

15. Hope he loses tgat license

Reply to Celerity (Reply #11)

Thu Dec 25, 2025, 06:10 AM

45 min ago

Merry Christmas sis
🎄 :🎄

Mysterian

(6,148 posts)

2. Yeah, good luck with getting Colorado to give up its sovereignty,

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 06:00 PM

12 hrs ago

stupid criminal.

wcmagumba

(5,537 posts)

3. Uh, no and no...

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 06:03 PM

12 hrs ago

State convictions can't be overturned by Feds or Emperor wanna be t-rump...George Washington, WTF...lady, you did the crime now shut up and do the time...

Attilatheblond

(8,147 posts)

4. Just cuz she's stupid enough to believe Trump when he said he'd protect her from prosecution

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 06:10 PM

12 hrs ago

doesn't make it so. And an election clerk should know better!

We have a county supervisor that is gonna find out that POTUS doesn't get to meddle in state criminal trials. He keeps finding ways to delay his trial. Last delay: Oh, I have to have a hernia repair. I figure when the delayed court date nears, he'll claim he needs a hysterectomy.

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,355 posts)

5. MaddowBlog-Colorado rebuffs Trump effort to transfer Tina Peters to federal custody

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 06:27 PM

12 hrs ago

The president and his team are still trying to intervene in the case of a convicted former county clerk. It’s not going well.

Colorado rebuffs Trump effort to transfer Tina Peters to federal custody - MS NOW

apple.news/AJPRetmFTRAG...
— (@oc88.bsky.social) 2025-12-01T17:20:34.131Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/colorado-rebuffs-trump-effort-to-transfer-tina-peters-to-federal-custody

A few weeks ago, the White House’s efforts to help former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters reached a new level: Trump’s Federal Bureau of Prisons contacted the Colorado Department of Corrections, seeking to transfer Peters from a state prison to federal custody.

Evidently, the request was not well received. The Associated Press reported:

Colorado doesn’t plan to transfer from state prison to federal custody a former county clerk who has become a hero to election conspiracy theorists following a request from the Trump administration, state officials said Wednesday. The Colorado Department of Corrections said it is not seeking a transfer of Tina Peters, who was convicted last year of orchestrating a scheme in Mesa County to breach voting machine data driven by false claims of fraud in the 2020 election.

“Transferring an individual is an action initiated by the Colorado Department of Corrections, not an outside entity,” department spokesperson Alondra Gonzalez-Garcia told the AP.....

Despite the Republican’s apparent interest in her case, there’s effectively nothing he can do: This was a state official, charged with state crimes, by state prosecutors, in a state court, with a state jury, overseen by a state judge, which necessarily means neither the president nor his Justice Department can overturn Peters’ criminal conviction.

Trump apparently intends to keep trying anyway, though there’s no reason to believe he’ll succeed.

Tina Peters' attorney is backing the idea of President Trump using a military raid to free her from a prison in Colorado.

Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of Colorado's county clerks say Gov Polis (D) is betraying election workers with his silence on whether he'll free Peters.
— Kyle Clark (@kylec.bsky.social) 2025-11-26T01:51:54.860Z

For his part, Peters’ defense attorney recently told Steve Bannon that he’d like to see the president deploy U.S. military personnel to the Colorado prison where Peters is being held in order to free her. The lawyer did not appear to be kidding.

Cha

(316,455 posts)

8. TY.. Hope she stays in Prison.. Peters earned it.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #5)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 07:24 PM

11 hrs ago

hlthe2b

(112,629 posts)

6. Yeah, that will work... :sarcasm: This idiot really thinks there are no consequences to cursing out

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 06:36 PM

12 hrs ago

and otherwise berating/belittling/becoming abusive toward the judges in her case--even at sentencing, and now she thinks telling the state's highest court that they have no power over her (no jurisdiction). Maybe you might want to rethink your pro se strategy (representing herself), although her prior lawyer is just about as stupid.

bluestarone

(21,067 posts)

7. Very nice to know she is NOT HAPPY!! Now

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 06:53 PM

12 hrs ago

If we could give Maxwell the EXACT same treatment, would be AWESOME!!

Baitball Blogger

(51,638 posts)

9. They don't believe the law applies to them.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 08:19 PM

10 hrs ago

NameAlreadyTaken

(2,218 posts)

10. LOCK HER UP

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 08:29 PM

10 hrs ago

orangecrush

(28,085 posts)

12. NO NO NO NO NO

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 10:59 PM

7 hrs ago

GoodRaisin

(10,701 posts)

13. She ain't going nowhere. Stupid magats.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Dec 25, 2025, 03:16 AM

3 hrs ago

DFW

(59,694 posts)

14. Next impeachment

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Dec 25, 2025, 04:17 AM

2 hrs ago

Trump can demand that instead of being tried in the US Senate, that his trial be held in the municipal court of Meridian, Mississippi or Muskogee, Oklahoma.

“L’État, c’est moi.” There is precedent.

Emile

(40,327 posts)

16. Weak on Crime Republicans!

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Dec 25, 2025, 06:37 AM

19 min ago

yellowcanine

(36,707 posts)

17. Yeah that's not how POTUS pardons work Tina.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Dec 25, 2025, 06:37 AM

19 min ago

Now shut up and do your time for state crimes.

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