“It’s one of my bedrock beliefs that our laws should be applied fairly, and I simply do not believe that was what happened in this case,” he added.
But many of his fellow Democrats did not see it the same way.
“I strongly disagree with this decision,” Democratic Senator of Colorado John Hickenlooper wrote on X. “Reducing her sentence sends the wrong message to those seeking to undermine trust in our elections and it will do nothing to deter Donald Trump’s illegal attacks on Colorado.”
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat, called the move “truly mind-boggling”. “This commutation decision is wrong and is an affront to the rule of law,” he said.
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