President Donald Trump has issued a “symbolic” pardon of Tina Peters, once the clerk for Mesa County, Colorado, but now a convicted felon for a little light election security breach to try to overturn the 2020 election results.

It turns out that when you do an actual crime, such as using your position as county clerk to give a random, unauthorized fellow election denier access to secure election equipment, you actually get convicted.

The problem for Peters—and Trump—is that Trump cannot simply wave his pardon wand and free her since she was convicted in state court. And of course, Trump can’t pardon state court convictions, much to his chagrin.

This fake pardon seems to have come about because, earlier this week, a federal magistrate denied Peters’ attempt to get a federal court to rele

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