The Supreme Court on Monday declined a request from former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters to delay her upcoming trial on charges related to an alleged security breach at the county’s election offices in 2021.
Justice Neil Gorsuch denied Peters’ request without providing any commentary. Gorsuch handled the matter as he oversees issues from the appeals court that had previously dismissed Peters’ attempts to nullify the criminal case.
Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County and a notable 2020 election skeptic, has pleaded not guilty to 10 state charges, including several felonies, connected to the purported security breach at Mesa County’s elections office in May 2021.
The criminal investigation into the clerk’s office was initiated after Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, accused Peters and her deputies of enabling the breach.
In early August 2021, a breach led to the publication of confidential voting machine logins and forensic images of their hard drives on a QAnon-affiliated Telegram channel.
Two lower courts have dismissed Peters’ efforts to dismiss the criminal case against her. Peters contends that she was following an explicit federal directive to preserve election records, thus claiming immunity from prosecution.
Peters’ trial is scheduled to commence on July 29.
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