President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has come up with a new way to try to pressure the state of Colorado to release Tina Peters, a MAGA-favoring former elections clerk who went to prison for tampering with election equipment to try to prove Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy theories.
According to The New Republic, “Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division are pretending to care about prisoners’ human rights in an apparent effort to get conspiracy theorist, former state official, and convicted 2020 election fraudster Tina Peters out of a Colorado jail.”
Dhillon announced on X, “Under my direction, @CivilRights has opened an investigation into the entire Colorado prison system following multiple reports of unconstitutional and legally insufficient carceral conditions. Prisoners have civil rights.”
The letter doesn’t specifically mention Peters, simply attacking the Colorado prison system for “failing to provide adequate medical care and safe sanitary physical conditions of confinement,” and potentially “housing biological males in units designated for females.”
But both supporters and detractors of the administration immediately recognized this as a ploy to create a pretext for Peters’ release. The Bulwark’s Will Sommer wrote, “New Trump pressure on Colorado to release election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters—who Trump can’t pardon because she’s imprisoned on state charges.”
This comes after a federal judge rejected Peters’ bid for habeas corpus on Monday.
It also comes after the Justice Department reportedly considered another far-fetched scheme to force Peters’ release on the pretense that she is a witness in a federal investigation, then transferring her to a minimum security “Club Fed” facility, similar to the deal made with former Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche opposed this idea, leading to fury against him from some Trump supporters.
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