Trumps politicized Dept. of Justice is trying to insert itself into a local Colorado case where it has absolutely no business intervening:

Colorado officials say President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be wielding its “political power” to give unprecedented help to a former county election clerk who was convicted of allowing Trump supporters to access election equipment after his 2020 defeat.

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 Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser wants Magistrate Judge Scott T. Varholak to block the Justice Department from getting involved. Lawyers from Weiser’s office said the Justice Department has not given any good reason why it should intervene and has just repeated Peters’ arguments.

“Tina Peters was not prosecuted because of any political pressure; she was prosecuted because she broke the law. And just as they did not prosecute her for political reasons, her prosecutors will not accede to any political pressure to give her preferred treatment in sentencing or terms of confinement,” lawyers from Weiser’s office said in a filing.

Colorado fights Trump administration bid to help imprisoned loyalist Tina Peters

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s chief deputy attorney general urged a federal judge on Tuesday to reject the Trump administration’s unprecedented bid to help an imprisoned former county clerk who embraced Trump’s lies that he lost the 2020 election because of fraud. The U.S. Justice Department in March submitted a federal court filing in support of Tina P…

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