A vote for Bennet in the primary is also effectively a vote for a new senator come 2027
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On June 1, Jared Polis released convicted voting system tamperer Tina Peters back into the wild. There’s no telling what she’ll do next! But I have ideas…
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Columnist Mike Littwin writes that Tina Peters' unapologetic remarks after her release just reminds us all over how wrong Gov. Jared Polis was to grant her clemency.
On today’s BradCast: The sad and/or maddening saga of one of the few 2020 MAGA election scammer/deniers to actually be held to account for undermining American elections. At least for a while. [Audio to full show follows this summary.] After a few previews of today’s primary elections in California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico […]
Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters on Monday used the new freedom granted to her by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to promptly renew her baseless allegations of widespread election fraud, casting doubt on the legitimacy of recent Democratic victories and the upcoming midterm elections. Peters, 70, was convicted in August 2024 on multiple felony counts […]
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Tina Peters—the Trump-supporting, election-denying former Colorado county election clerk found guilty of tampering with voting machines—is now free.
Peters was freed from prison on Monday after Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polis granted her clemency and reduced her sentence just weeks earlier.
Peters was originally sentenced to nine years in prison for conspiring to publicize the voting…
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Peters served 19 months in state prison before her nine-year sentence was cut in half last month by Gov. Jared Polis in a controversial clemency decision
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Gov. Jared Polis commuted the former Mesa County clerk’s sentence last month, making her eligible for parole and setting off a national firestorm over her role in attempting to interfere with an election
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Columnist Mike Littwin writes that Donald Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund has even shocked some GOP lawmakers. Is that cause for hope? He doubts it.
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The immediate backlash to Gov. Jared Polis’ decision has been severe criticism, and he has put us on a dangerous path ahead
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Over the last few days, everyone and their Mother Jones has been talking about Tina Peters, the convicted election fraudster, and whether Colorado Governor Jared Polis “did the right thing” in commuting her sentence last week. This debate doesn’t fall along party lines so neatly. The Atlantic’s David Graham __ called it “a serious mistake” that “weakens the rule of law” and “will encourage those…
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Yes. Vice President JD Vance recently said he thought it was “reasonable” that Tina Peters get compensation from a taxpayer-supported fund.
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Cartoonist Jim Morrissey notes that commutation may have inspired joy in Tina Peters, but the governor's fellow Democrats had a different reaction.
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They said his recent actions harm the party's credibility and democracy itself.
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U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper's amendment will be voted on as the U.S. Senate debates a roughly $70 billion bill brought by Republicans to restore funding to ICE and the Border Patrol
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The vote by the party’s central committee was the most significant political fallout yet for the Colorado governor, who issued a clemency order last week reducing Peters’ sentence
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Gov. Jared Polis made the remarks at The Colorado Sun’s annual legislative recap event at the University of Denver, only to be drowned out by a small group of protesters
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If Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of election thief Tina Peters in hope of appeasing Trump and getting funding restored, he may wait a long time.
The post Bending the Knee to Trump appeared first on The American Prospect.
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As his party and even some Republicans condemn him, Polis believes he knows better than judges, juries, prosecutors and nearly everyone else.
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Two of the people receiving clemency were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole
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The extraordinary, but expected, decision puts Gov. Jared Polis at odds not only with fellow Democrats, but also with many Republicans in Colorado
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No. Though the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters must be resentenced for her crimes, the judge who initially sentenced her could impose the same penalty.
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The court overturned Peters’ sentence on First Amendment grounds. And its remedy: She should be resentenced by the judge who sentenced her the first time.
The Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ conviction on felony charges related to a breach of her office’s elections equipment, but it ruled that a trial court had erred in imposing her nine-year prison sentence. Peters’ sentence, handed down in October 2024, was “based in part on improper […]
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The appeals court ordered a judge to re-evaluate the punishment for the former Mesa County clerk
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The scientific consortium that runs the Boulder federal lab says retribution by Trump administration is only reason for dismantling the climate and weather research agency
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The propaganda campaign on the nonissue of voter fraud is aimed at undermining our confidence in elections
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The letter warned that clemency would be a gift to conspiracy theorists and risks undermining the safety of future elections
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When Jared Polis signs the papers to reduce Tina Peters’ sentence, he’ll also be writing his political obituary. As I don’t have to tell you, Peters, the former Mesa County clerk, is a self-styled MAGA hero who calls herself a political prisoner. She has shown absolutely no remorse after being convicted of tampering with election […]
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The Colorado Sun asked every Democrat in the legislature Wednesday whether Polis should offer Peters clemency after the governor all but said on social media Tuesday that he plans to do so
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