{"id":915431,"date":"2026-06-25T18:17:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/colorado-election-denier-tina-peters-to-be-freed-from-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:17:58","slug":"colorado-election-denier-tina-peters-to-be-freed-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/colorado-election-denier-tina-peters-to-be-freed-from-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado election denier Tina Peters to be freed from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday announced he&#8217;s cutting disgraced election denier and former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters&#8217; sentence by half, making her eligible for release next month.  Why it matters: The move comes after repeated calls from the Trump administration for Peters to be freed.President Trump pardoned her late last year despite having no jurisdiction over state-level cases.Driving the news: The development means Peters is expected to be released on June 1&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/denver\/2026\/05\/15\/polis-tina-peters-sentence-clemency\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday announced he&#8217;s cutting disgraced election denier and former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters&#8217; sentence by half, making her eligible for release next month. Why it matters: The move comes after repeated calls from the Trump administration for Peters to be freed.President Trump pardoned her late last year despite having<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":915432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1110,301],"tags":[5695,7805],"class_list":["post-915431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado","category-election","tag-colorado","tag-election"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}