Overview
- In a New Year's Eve Truth Social post, the president blasted Gov. Jared Polis and Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein and demanded Tina Peters' release.
- Peters, 73, is serving a nine-year sentence at La Vista Correctional Facility after 2024 convictions stemming from a Mesa County election-system breach.
- Trump said he granted Peters a "full pardon" on Dec. 5, but state officials contend presidential clemency cannot void state-level convictions.
- Peters' attorneys have asked the Colorado Court of Appeals to recognize the pardon and to order her release from state custody.
- The appeals court set a Jan. 8 deadline for the attorney general's response and scheduled arguments for Jan. 14, as Rubinstein said Trump has "no facts and no law" supporting the bid.