Trump's social media account announced that he had "pardoned" Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Arizona, jailed there for election fraud. Assuming he has even filed any real paperwork, the problem is simple: the U.S. president cannot pardon state criminals, only federal ones.

"Tina Peters was convicted by a jury of her peers, prosecuted by a Republican District Attorney and in a Republican county of Colorado and found guilty of violating Colorado state laws including criminal impersonation," Polis said in a statement. "No President has jurisdiction over state law nor the power to pardon a person for state convictions. This is a matter for the courts to decide, and we will abide by court orders."

Peters was sent down for nearly nine years after a Mesa County jury found that sh

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