President Donald Trump said he was directing the Department of Justice to “take all necessary action to help secure” the release of Peters.
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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said Wednesday that the federal government has no standing to free former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters from jail.
“We have our own system,” Weiser said in an interview with Colorado Matters. “This is what our constitution calls federalism. We enforce our criminal laws and the federal government can’t hijack that system. They have to honor it. We are a separate sovereign.”
