July 24, 2024 10:16 AM UTC

Tina Peters' Final Appeal To Supreme Court Fails

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• by: Colorado Pols

As CNN reports, yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court rejected without comment a last-ditch attempt by indicted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters to have the felony charges against her thrown out, failing to convince Justice Neil Gorsuch that her half-baked scheme to steal proprietary election system data in a failed attempt to provide evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump was in line with her duties:

Justice Neil Gorsuch denied the request from Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, and a prominent 2020 election denier, without comment.

The order came from Gorsuch because he oversees matters arising from the appeals court that rejected Peters’ efforts to throw out the criminal case.

The former clerk has pleaded not guilty to 10 state charges, including several felony counts, stemming from the apparent security breach in Mesa County’s elections office in May 2021.

While the criminal case against Peters has slowly gained steam, Peters became a starlet in the nationwide election conspiracy set, including a trip to Mar-a-Lago for the premiere of the now-discredited conspiracy flick 2000 Mules. Peters’ eventually got her own movie Selection Code starring the also-discredited former journalist Lara Logan, and even Tucker Carlson before losing his job at Fox News gave Peters a low-information segment full of lavish praise for her supposed bravery as a “whistleblower.”

Meanwhile back in Mesa County, Peters’ legal defense has consisted mostly of delay tactics including the last-minute firing of her legal team to stall the trial in February, alternated by the same meritless claims that Peters’ actions, which allegedly included identity theft to allow outside “investigators” to steal data from Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Peters’ charge, were somehow justified as part of her official duties. Lower courts have consistently rejected the latter contention, and the Supreme Court’s denial means her last hope of halting the trial set to begin on July 29th is dead.

Peters, on home confinement for her dodgy behavior leading up to the trial, is just about out of time to make a deal and spare herself the humiliation of what is not expected to be a close case prosecuted by the Republican Mesa County DA Dan Rubinstein. Peters’ assistants have turned state’s evidence and are set to testify against her, and the blinkered conspiracy theories that sustain Peters on the tour circuit are worthless in a court of law. With other prosecutions for crimes related to Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election stymied, Peters’ case could be one of the only remaining opportunities for the “Big Lie” to be adjudicated before the November election.

If we were Trump, we would not want this case to go to trial.