Disgraced county election clerk Tina Peters has a new ally in the U.S. District of Colorado’s office after Attorney General Pam [Bimbo #3] Bondi appointed Peter McNeilly to become the next U.S. attorney on Monday.
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McNeilly was part of a Justice Department cadre who filed a Statement of Interest in March concerning Peters’s election interference case. In August, Peters was convicted on seven counts, including four felonies, for helping a man illegally access Mesa County election voting machines. She was sentenced to nine years in prison.
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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser vehemently objected to the review and called on the judge to reject the federal government’s filing. Weiser claimed it was a “naked, political attempt to threaten or intimidate this Court or the attorneys that prosecuted this matter.”
“The United States cites not a single fact to support its baseless allegations that there are any reasonable concerns about Ms. Peters’ prosecution or sentence, or that the prosecution was politically motivated,” Weiser wrote in a response to the Statement of Interest.
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Associated Press: Colorado fights Trump administration bid to help imprisoned loyalist Tina Peters
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.