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.

Former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters is asking the state appeals court to recognize 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.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    We can’t allow him to pardon state crimes.

    He doesn’t have that authority and we don’t need to give him more.

    If this goes to the federal supreme court, I honestly don’t understand why the state would even recognize it. It’s not under federal jurisdiction so that even they don’t have a say in this unless the state decides to just accept it for some reason.