December 11, 2025, was a civics lesson in states' rights to control their elections:Two states, one red, one blue, just defied Trump's attack on their states' rights, defying his attempts to federalize and control the election process and state laws. The GOP majority in the Indiana state senate refused to go along with Trump's pressure and threats of being primaried and losing federal funds if they refused to redistrict boundaries gerrymandered to increase GOP Congressional votes in time for the 2026 midterms. As one GOP state senator who voted to defy Trump on this issue commented on MSNOW, Indiana Republicans favor small government, and they resented Trump's pressure to federalize partisan advantages. The Indiana senators also defied death and bomb threats to do it.
In another case in Colorado, Trump declared once again that he would pardon Tina Peters, who is currently in a Colorado prison, having been found guilty of violating state election laws when she sought to take favorable action on behalf of Trump. Colorado officials, the governor, attorney general, and secretary of state said no, and also defied the president and his threats. They asserted that Trump can only pardon those found guilty of violating federal laws, per the Constitution, not state laws. Peters was convicted under state election laws.
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