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Colorado Governor Fires Officials Who Opposed Freeing Tina Peters
The New York Times • • nation
Key Points:
- Colorado Gov. Jared Polis fired two clemency board members, Hannah Seigel Proff and Azra Taslimi, after they publicly opposed his decision to commute the prison sentence of election denier Tina Peters.
- The board had unanimously voted twice to reject Peters’s application for a shortened sentence, but Polis overruled them to grant the commutation following pressure from former President Trump.
- Normally confidential, the board members revealed their votes in Peters’s case, breaking protocol, which led to their dismissal for violating confidentiality standards.
- Polis cited the breach of the required duty of confidentiality in his dismissal letters to Proff and Taslimi, who shared the letters with The New York Times.
