A conservative group is asking the federal government to criminally investigate Colorado officials for throwing 2020 election skeptic Tina Peters in prison.
The state targeted the former county clerk and President Donald Trump ally based on political viewpoints when punishing her for leaking voting machine data in 2021, the Article III Project told the Department of Justice (DOJ) in a Monday letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Judge Matthew Barrett sentenced Peters to nine years behind bars in 2024 on felonies and misdemeanors for sharing the data with political allies to investigate alleged election fraud.
Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence on May 15, scheduling her for release on Monday.
“The evidence is clear: Colorado government officials conspired to severely, unconstitutionally, and criminally punish Tina Peters because of her First Amendment-protected views on election integrity,” the Article III Project wrote to Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon. The group asked her team to investigate the involvement of Barrett, Democratic Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, Republican Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein and Democratic Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold in the case, along with “any and all other potential coconspirators.”
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