The Department of Justice changed its position on the Tina Peters litigation in Colorado after January 20, 2025.
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Badlands MediaSep 16, 2026
The claim departs from the passage: the speaker says the DOJ's position changed before January 20, 2025, while the extracted claim says after January 20, 2025, so it is not graded as the poster's statement. On the sources alone, the DOJ's public shift to backing Peters appears in filings from early 2025, after January 20.
What was said
… The DOJ helped Jenna Griswold try to keep President Trump off the ballot in a novel reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment. And uhm, that changed on January 20th. Really, it changed before January 20th, 2025, because we saw the DOJ, same guy in the seat, change his position on the Tina Peters litigation here and start speaking oppositional to the state of Colorado when they had been in lockstep. Prior to the victory of President Trump on, uhm, election day in 2024, they, they were, they were co-signing the state's bullshit against Tina Peters, and then the election changed, and all of a sudden there was an …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The sources show the DOJ moved to intervene in Peters' case in early 2025: a March 2025 review announcement and a statement of interest that backed her release request.[1][2][3]
Context. Sources describe the DOJ's involvement as beginning after Trump's inauguration, but none establishes a DOJ position change before January 20, 2025, which is the timing the post itself asserts.[4][5]
Context. The claimant's own statement that the change happened before January 20 is not evidence and cannot corroborate either timing.
Sources
5 sources: 5 not rated
- 1Justice Department to review Colorado prosecution of ...coloradopolitics.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 2Colorado calls DOJ interest in Tina Peters' case a 'grotesque attempt ...cpr.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 3Election Deniers Celebrate Dept. of Justice Intervention in Tina Peters’ Bail Requestcoloradotimesrecorder.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Colorado fights Trump administration bid to help imprisoned loyalist Tina Peters - Sentinel Coloradosentinelcolorado.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5'Rare and unprecedented': Federal judge grills government ...gazette.com · not rated · cited for: context
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