Colorado appeals court tosses out sentence
of Tina Peters
Posted By: JoElla Bee, 4/3/2026 2:00:44 AM
DENVER — The Colorado Appeals Court issued a decision Thursday morning that threw out the current prison sentence of Tina Peters, but affirmed her conviction on several felony charges.[snip] The state appeals court heard arguments in the case in January. They issued their decision Thursday morning and said that her sentence should be set aside because it was based, in part, on improper consideration of her right to exercise free speech. Her case will be sent back to the trial court for resentencing. With no changes to her original sentence, Peters would have been parole eligible in early 2028.
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DENVER — The Colorado Appeals Court issued a decision Thursday morning that threw out the current prison sentence of Tina Peters, but affirmed her conviction on several felony charges.[snip] The state appeals court heard arguments in the case in January. They issued their decision Thursday morning and said that her sentence should be set aside because it was based, in part, on improper consideration of her right to exercise free speech. Her case will be sent back to the trial court for resentencing. With no changes to her original sentence, Peters would have been parole eligible in early 2028.
On Thursday, we learned that President Donald Trump fired Pam Bondi as attorney general, making her the second Cabinet member he's axed in less than a month. Trump's official send-off was gracious, but the question remains: Why did he fire her?[snip] According to a report from the Daily Mail, the reason Trump gave Bondi the axe is that he believes Bondi tipped off Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) about the FBI's plans to release documents tied to his decade-old relationship with a suspected Chinese spy.[snip]"The White House wasn't pleased she was intervening due to her personal friendship with Swalwell."
WASHINGTON — President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday in the second major cabinet shakeup of his second term. “We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much-needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General,” Trump posted on Truth Social.[snip] A fellow attendee who interacted with Bondi at Trump’s primetime address described her as “cheerful” despite the looming ax.
PARIS, March 27 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday the United States could achieve its objectives in Iran without the use of any ground troops and expected its operation to conclude in a matter of weeks, despite recent deployments of additional forces to the region. Rubio spoke to reporters before returning to the U.S. after he discussed with G7 foreign ministers in France the conflict launched by the U.S. and Israel late last month.
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Are Republicans trying to lose the midterms?
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Are congressional Republicans absolutely determined to forfeit this November’s midterm elections? It sure looks that way. The GOP would hardly be acting any differently if it were secretly run by its enemies. The election-security provisions of the SAVE Act enjoy overwhelming popular support. According to CBS/YouGov polling, requiring photo ID to vote is literally an 80-20 issue, commanding the support of four out of five voters. Yet the Republican Senate, with a 53-47 majority, is struggling to pass the law. Yes, the filibuster gives Chuck Schumer a powerful weapon to use against the GOP, but there are ways around that – ways the GOP chooses not to take.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said that a legal theory supported by the Republican National Committee in a case related to mail-in ballots “imperils a lot of different things.”[snip] “I mean, I think this is your original point that there were lots of different practices and so to the extent we're saying, ‘oh, you could only look at Election Day in the federal statute to mean exactly what the states were doing back at that time.’ This imperils a lot of different things, not just post-Election Day ballot deadlines.”
It's Happening: ICE Shows Up at Multiple
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Airports As Schumer Shutdown Travel Chaos Intensifies 5 replies
Massive security lines at airports around the nation continue to grow as the Democrats hold the country hostage with their now month-old partial government shutdown.[snip] • ICE deploys to airports: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been deployed to 14 airports today to help during the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. The Transportation Security Administration has faced growing callouts from officers who have gone without pay since DHS funding lapsed in February.
The State Department is warning Americans worldwide to watch their surroundings. In a rare Sunday alert, officials issued a “Worldwide Caution” advisory following U.S. operations in Iran, citing rising tensions and the risk of travel disruptions across multiple regions.[snip] The alert comes as Operation Epic Fury continues, and on the heels of President Trump's ultimatum to Iran regarding the Strait of Hormuz: If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!
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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoenaFriday for a Virginia prosecutor who has been accused of ignoring threats that were made against White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller. Jordan opened the probe into Arlington County and the City of Falls Church prosecutor Parisa Dehghani-Tafti last year, which focuses on her handling of a doxing and intimidation case that was brought against left-wing activist Barbara Wien.[snip] Dehghani-Tafti has been accused of "stymying the investigation"[snip]sided with Wien's defense team's request[snip]limit the information state police could share with the FBI.
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Pentagon’s new press policy restricting press credential of reporters is unconstitutional. In October, Pentagon reporters turned in their badges after they refused to sign Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s new security rule. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanded that reporters agree by 5 p.m. Tuesday to a new policy, under which they would need to pledge to not obtain or use any unauthorized material, even if the information is unclassified — or hand over their press badges in the next 24 hours,”[snip]By that afternoon, Pentagon reporters turned in their badges.
The Shadow War Against President Trump
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The joint American-Israeli military operation against the Iranian regime is now three weeks old, but there is another war — a more silent one — raging here on the home front. President Donald Trump's second administration is facing a highly coordinated shadow war — one waged both by some influential outside voices on the Right and, more dangerously, by their subversive allies within Trump's very own government. If this campaign is not confronted and decisively defeated, the result will be calamitous: a second Trump term that drifts into lame-duck status not due to a voter backlash but because of an insurrection from within.
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