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douglas9

(5,295 posts) Sat Nov 15, 2025, 06:15 AM Saturday

Trump administration takes formal step toward freeing Tina Peters

DENVER — The Trump administration is taking an official step to spring election conspiracy heroine Tina Peters from prison in Colorado.

The Colorado Department of Corrections confirms it received notice from the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Nov. 12, a concrete move toward a speculative strategy to free Peters from custody.

President Trump cannot pardon the former Mesa County clerk, who is serving a nine-year prison term on state charges for a scheme to sneak fellow election deniers into Colorado’s voting systems in a search for election rigging.

Far-right activists have repeatedly called for the Trump administration to use a novel maneuver to free Peters by first taking her into federal custody, perhaps by claiming she is a witness in a federal investigation into the 2020 election.

Peters has echoed Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged against him.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/politics/trump-administration-free-tina-peters/73-ebd88246-28c3-4ea7-a742-278c7f7509a6

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Trump administration takes formal step toward freeing Tina Peters (Original Post) douglas9 Saturday OP

Yet another lawless abuse of power by Trump. J_William_Ryan Saturday #1

A good experienced legal analysis of strategies at play and why they would not be likely to work... hlthe2b Saturday #2

Because the rule of law dweller Saturday #3

They will fail Fiendish Thingy Saturday #4

J_William_Ryan

(3,158 posts)

1. Yet another lawless abuse of power by Trump.

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 06:24 AM

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Yet another impeachable offense that will lead to neither impeachment nor the conviction of Trump.

And yet another attack on states’ rights by the authoritarian Trump regime.

hlthe2b

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2. A good experienced legal analysis of strategies at play and why they would not be likely to work...

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Sat Nov 15, 2025, 06:25 AM

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plus a suspicion that all this is just to placate vocal Trump supporters, even though it is not internally expected to work...?

https://www.9news.com/article/news/politics/president-trump-free-tina-peters-prison/73-7ec6fbc7-1cca-4ed5-a5a7-e3969e0bf811

dweller

(27,604 posts)

3. Because the rule of law

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Sat Nov 15, 2025, 06:50 AM

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is just a suggestion

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Fiendish Thingy

(21,556 posts)

4. They will fail

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 09:58 AM

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If Peters is taken into federal custody, then released, what would stop Colorado from imprisoning her again?

I don’t think the governor of Colorado is going to roll over for this gambit.

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