Colorado-Beamte lehnen Trumps „Begnadigung“ eines verurteilten Wahlleugners ab: Die erklärte Absicht des Präsidenten, Tina Peters zu begnadigen, die 2020 wegen Manipulation von Wahlmaschinen inhaftiert wurde, hat einen Rechtsstreit über das Ausmaß von Herrn Trumps Begnadigungsbefugnissen ausgelöst.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/us/politics/trump-tina-peters.html
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**Snippet**:
* President Trump’s pledge to pardon Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines, touched off a furious new battle on Friday over the fate of perhaps the last high-profile 2020 election denier still behind bars.
* Democratic leaders in Colorado dismissed the pardon as an empty attempt to bully a Democratic state into freeing one of the president’s political allies. They argued that Mr. Trump had no legal power to overturn Ms. Peters’ conviction in state court.
There shouldn’t be any legal fight in the first place. The constitution is very clear on what to do in this situation and unless Trump wants to invade Colorado and break her out, she is going nowhere
Say NO to Trump!
There shouldn’t even be a legal fight. Federal government has no business with State crimes.
his powers should be as limited as his intellect.
>They argued that Mr. Trump had no legal power to overturn Ms. Peters’s conviction in state court.
They “argued?” How about: **Trump has no legal power to overturn Ms. Peters’s conviction in state court.** Fucking corporate media cowards.
He can’t pardon state crimes. Legal battle over.
Don’t worry, the corrupt Republican controlled supreme court will intervene here and say that Trump has the power to do what ever the fuck he wants.
I am not sure they’d release her even if the Supreme Court issues more new edicts on presidential power. This is a state crime, there is no nuance here, we either have federalism or tyranny.
Give me the Supreme Court a week and they’ll change the law so the president can pardon anyone.
It is outrageous for the NYT to characterize this as a „legal fight.“ There is no fight. All serious lawyers and legal scholars agree that the President cannot grant pardons for State offenses.
The press is absolutely useless man, headline makes it seem like it’s up in the air
They should just laugh at how much of a fucking moron he is.
Dont file anything in court. Just ignore him.
Oh, the irony. He is literally filling the streets of the US with criminals. Who did the GOP accuse of doing that?
January 6th was an attempt at insurrection.
When are Republicans going to accept responsibility for criminal acts..
Fight? No, it’s been rejected.
The end. It had no legal weight and Colorado knows it.
the media needs to stop normalizing this, its literally not constitutional.
He’s likely doing it as a test case because he wants to make his own state convictions go away.
Every time he calls or sends a communication, say ‚ok‘ and don’t do shit. Trump is one stupid motherfucker… and his supporters are even more so.
Fuck off NYT. You’re complicit in this fresh hell we’re in. I don’t believe a word they say, whether for or against DJT
Good job Colorado – keep it up!
Things that we might want to end: the presidential pardon, congressional stock trading, and Citizens United.
Narrator: So, of course, SCOTUS took up this case. And ya know what? The President DOES have the power to pardon for state crimes! Of course this is based on an interpretation of Puritan prayer hymnals from 1645. And ya know what else they pulled outta their butt holes? He can overturn any civil trial ever, in all of recorded history too! Ain’t that somethin‘ folks?
I don’t quite think people understand the implications of presidential pardons of state crimes. If that occurs, murder, which is a state crime, would become pardonable by the President.
Ah yes, the “state’s rights” admin wanting to intervene in a state matter… so much for “handing it back to the states to decide”. Guess that only counts for FEMA money. Also their choice of Mr. rather than President is very good.
It’s a state charge, there is no legal fight.
What fight? The law is crystal fucking clear.
its miss representing what she did… she leaked security codes and source materials for the voting machines. There is an ongoing legal battle suggesting her leak was used to switch votes in 2024.
We are always acting like it’s a test of his presidential powers…No it’s not , he doesn’t have that power and someone on his team should advise him of that. Enough is enough