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Prosecutors said that she had become fixated on false claims of voter fraud spread by Trump after his defeat.

Yvonne Winget Sanchez is a reporter with The Atlantic and profiled her case.

She was sentenced to nine years, but Peters maintained her innocence throughout and in court showed no remorse.

Trump characterizes Peters as a political prisoner.

But these are state charges, not federal, so he lacks the power to release her.

Instead, Trump has been pushing for the Democratic governor, Jared Polis, to enact the pardon, saying this on Monday.

Sanchez said it's going beyond just criticizing Governor Polis.

Polis posted on social media that Peters was convicted by a jury of her peers and that the president doesn't have jurisdiction in the matter.

Sanchez reports that the White House's top lawyer spoke to the county's Republican district attorney about the case, and he denied a federal Bureau of Prisons request to hand Peters over to their custody.

This week, Trump posted on social media that he had granted a full pardon to Peters, despite lacking the authority to do so.

She remains in prison.

And Sanchez says that Trump's position is far from universal.

Peters is appealing the sentence, and her lawyers have cited Trump's pardon push in their efforts to free her.

Let's talk about a story now out of Washington that flew under the radar this week, about a historic figure you might not be very familiar with, and a statue that honors her story.

Barbara Rose Johns, then a 16-year-old Black teenager, led a protest in the early 1950s that contributed to profound changes in the country.

On Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries gathered in Emancipation Hall in the Capitol to unveil her new statue.

That's Rachel Triesman, a reporter who covered the unveiling for NPR.

Now, the hall is unique because every state legislature gets to select two notable people from its history to be represented there.

Virginia has George Washington, and for more than a century, it had Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

But back in 2020, Ralph Northam, the former Democratic governor of Virginia, requested that Lee's statue be removed, and a state commission selected Barbara Rose Johns in his place.