{"id":35008,"date":"2025-03-04T20:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/us-justice-department-to-review-conviction-of-former-election-clerk\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T20:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:11:51","slug":"us-justice-department-to-review-conviction-of-former-election-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/us-justice-department-to-review-conviction-of-former-election-clerk\/","title":{"rendered":"US justice department to review conviction of former election clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Tina Peters of Colorado was sentenced to nine years for her role in voter interference data-breach scheme<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s justice department said it will review the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/colorado\">Colorado<\/a> conviction of former election clerk Tina Peters, who received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/03\/tina-peters-election-colorado\">nine-year prison sentence<\/a> for her role in a voting system data-breach scheme as part of an unsuccessful quest to find voter fraud in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Yaakov Roth, an acting assistant attorney general, <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gov.uscourts.cod_.241206.16.0.pdf\">wrote in a court filing<\/a> on Monday that the Department of Justice was \u201creviewing cases across the nation for abuses of the criminal justice process\u201d, including Peters\u2019.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/04\/justice-department-review-tina-peters-conviction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Tina Peters of Colorado was sentenced to nine years for her role in voter interference data-breach scheme Donald Trump\u2019s justice department said it will review the Colorado conviction of former election clerk Tina Peters, who received a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a voting system data-breach scheme as part of an unsuccessful &#8230; <a title=\"US justice department to review conviction of former election clerk\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/us-justice-department-to-review-conviction-of-former-election-clerk\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US justice department to review conviction of former election clerk\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}