Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado on Wednesday fired two members of his clemency board after they spoke out against his decision to commute the prison sentence of the election denier Tina Peters.
The two board members, Hannah Seigel Proff and Azra Taslimi, had objected to Mr. Polis’s decision in May to release Ms. Peters from prison, saying it came after pressure from President Trump.
After the commutation, Ms. Proff and Ms. Taslimi revealed that the clemency review board — appointed by Mr. Polis — twice voted unanimously to reject Ms. Peters’s application for a shortened sentence.
The board normally operates in secret, and does not disclose the pardon and commutation recommendations it makes to the governor. Ms. Proff and Ms. Taslimi said they had been compelled to pierce that veil of secrecy in Ms. Peters’s case.
On Wednesday, they said they had paid the price. They received a letter from the governor saying they were being dismissed for violating the board’s confidentiality standards.
“You breached the required duty of confidentiality by publicly divulging board members’ votes,” Mr. Polis wrote to each of the women, who shared the letters with The New York Times.
Ms. Peters, a former county clerk in conservative western Colorado, had been sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted in 2024 in a plot to tamper with voting machines under her control in an attempt to show that the 2020 election had been rigged against Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump spent months attacking Mr. Polis and demanding that he free Ms. Peters, but Mr. Polis has said that the president’s harangues played no part in his commutation decision.
Posted by John3262005
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I feel like this is very relevant in regards to the decision of freeing the denier
Seems like the two officials got fired after revealing the secret going ons of the clemency board, by which voted twice unanimously against freeing that denier, and openly objecting against the decision
*On Wednesday, they said they had paid the price. They received a letter from the governor saying they were being dismissed for violating the board’s confidentiality standards.*
This is the reason why.
Smh, Polis. Just more and more with that decision
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The Fetterman-Polis 2032 no labels ticket is gonna get an impressive .2% in the popular vote
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This is what you do the day after when the progressives clearly overperform in your state’s dem primaries?
u/JaredPolis you’re a bum
“Imma pretend I didn’t see that”-the mod team
A truly despicable “man”
Ew.
Just want to chime in and say that Ms. Taslimi is a truly excellent attorney and is – above all – a professional. I have always appreciated working with her.
In my opinion, I have no issue with what she did and I suspect that many in here would agree.
Like how can you defend this. This is crazy, is Polis trying to piss off everyone he can.
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