2026-07-02 01:34 AM ET / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：阿丽娜·法亚兹
科罗拉多州州长贾里德·波利斯周三解雇了州赦免委员会的两名成员，原因是他们公开反对他有争议的赦免蒂娜·彼得斯的决定。彼得斯是一名选举否认论者，这位即将卸任的民主党州长在今年5月将她的刑期削减了一半。
阿兹拉·塔斯利米和汉娜·西格尔·普罗夫告诉CNN，他们是在公开表态后被解雇的，其中包括在6月的《纽约时报》一篇报道中透露赦免程序的秘密细节，并批评州长推翻了委员会的决定。她们告诉《纽约时报》，赦免委员会曾两次在闭门会议上全票否决了彼得斯的提前出狱申请。
波利斯今年5月做出释放彼得斯的决定之前，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普曾长期向科罗拉多州施压，要求释放彼得斯。彼得斯于6月获释，是最后一名因2020年大选相关罪行仍在服刑的特朗普盟友。
在CNN获得的写给塔斯利米和普罗夫的信件中，波利斯表示，两人通过公开言论违反了保密义务。
“具体而言，你们违反了要求的保密责任，公开透露了仅通过你们在本委员会的官方职务才获得的、与赦免申请相关的委员会成员投票情况，”波利斯在信中写道。
两名女性告诉CNN，她们对被解雇感到失望，但并不意外。
“我并不在意他推翻了我们的决定。真正让人恼火的是，我们清楚他这么做的原因：蒂娜·彼得斯背后有强大的盟友，”塔斯利米说。“有人以她的名义施加了政治压力，州长对此屈服了，这才是不公平之处，这也是我称之为选择性仁慈的原因——你给了她其他人都得不到或不会给予的优待。”
州长发言人埃里克·丸山周三在一份声明中告诉CNN：“公开披露委员会的建议以及成员对任何案件的投票情况，会威胁到委员会的公信力，影响委员会未来的审议，并且违反了设立该委员会的行政命令中明确规定的保密政策。”
在委员会任职近八年的普罗夫表示，她对闭门赦免推荐程序中的保密规定的理解是“为了保护申请赦免的人，而非保护州长”。
州长主要以科罗拉多州最近的一项上诉法院裁决为由为释放彼得斯的决定辩护，该裁决认定审判法官因不当惩罚彼得斯关于2020年大选的受保护言论，侵犯了她的第一修正案权利。
“这是一个明确的决定，因为在审查了相关事实并阅读了上诉法院的裁决后，我得出结论，她的刑期实在太长了，”波利斯在一篇Substack帖子中写道，他在该帖子中谴责了彼得斯的罪行。
如今两人已被解雇，普罗夫担心透明度会下降。
“我担心我们被委员会解雇后，会出现这样的情况：人们更不敢发声……政客们在这类决策上会不受监督，”普罗夫说。
Colorado governor fires two clemency board members who spoke out about Tina Peters’ commutation
2026-07-02 01:34 AM ET / CNN
By Aleena Fayaz
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks to the National Governors Association at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado in July 2025.
David Zalubowski/AP/File
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday fired two members of the state’s clemency board after they spoke out against his controversial decision to grant clemency to Tina Peters – an election denier whose sentence was cut in half by the outgoing Democratic governor in May.
Azra Taslimi and Hannah Seigel Proff told CNN they were fired after speaking out publicly, including in a New York Times article in June, in which they revealed secret details about the clemency process and criticized the governor for overruling the board. They told the Times the clemency board twice voted unanimously behind closed doors to reject Peters’ application for an early release from prison.
Polis’ decision in May to release Peters came after President Donald Trump waged a long pressure campaign against Colorado to free her. Peters – who was released from prison in June – was the last Trump ally still in prison for 2020 election-related crimes.
In letters to Taslimi and Proff obtained by CNN, Polis said the two members breached confidentiality by speaking out.
“Specifically, you breached the required duty of confidentiality by publicly divulging Board members’ votes pertaining to a clemency application which you obtained only through your official position on this Board,” Polis wrote in the letters.
The two women told CNN they are disappointed they were fired — but not surprised.
“I’m not upset that he overrode our decision. I think what’s upsetting is that we understand why he did it, which is that you know Tina Peters had a powerful ally behind her,” Taslimi said. “She had political pressure applied in her name, and the governor capitulated to it, and that is what makes this unfair, and that is why I call it selective mercy, because you are giving her the benefit that you don’t give or apply to anyone else.”
Eric Maruyama, a spokesperson for the governor, told CNN in a statement Wednesday, “Publicly disclosing board recommendations and how members vote on any case threatens the credibility of the board, colors future deliberations by the board and breaks clearly stated confidentiality policy articulated in the Executive Order which establishes this board.”
Proff, who served on the board for nearly eight years, said she understood the state rules around the closed-door clemency recommendation process “more as the confidentiality to protect the people who apply for clemency, not to protect the governor.”
The governor primarily justified his decision to release Peters by citing a recent Colorado appeals court ruling that found the trial judge violated Peters’ First Amendment rights by improperly punishing her for her protected speech about the 2020 election.
“It was a straightforward decision because, after reviewing the facts, and reading the Appeals Court decision, I concluded that her sentence was simply too long,” Polis wrote in a Substack post, where he condemned Peters’ crimes.
Now that they’ve been terminated, Proff worries there will be less transparency.
“I worry now that we’ve been terminated from the board what comes of this is that people are less likely to speak out … that politicians will go unchecked on these sort of decisions,” Proff said.
发表回复