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DATE: May 15, 2026 

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Seligman Responds to Gov Polis' Outrageous commutation of tina peters

 

Denver, CO – Today Governor Jared Polis issued a commutation of Tina Peters’ prison sentence, which she received after being found guilty of seven felonies by a jury of her peers in Mesa County in 2024. President Trump has fixated on Peters’ sentence, calling for her to be released and threatening to withhold federal funding from Colorado if she is not released. 

 

“The governor’s commutation of Tina Peters is an outrageous corruption of how our justice system is supposed to work,” said David Seligman, Executive Director of Towards Justice and candidate for Attorney General. “By ceding to the pressure campaign from an authoritarian president, Governor Polis has surrendered one of the most important tools we have to take on the Trump administration’s corruption and cruelty: The power of state law to hold accountable those who subvert our democracy. I’m running for Attorney General to take on a rigged system, and stand up to Democrats, including the governor, when they bend to the powerful at the expense of working families.”

 

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