Jared Polis deserves praise for commutation of Tina Peters’s sentence

Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) did something very unusual last week.

When Polis granted Tina Peters’s clemency petition, allowing her to leave prison years ahead of her scheduled release date, there was no political or personal benefit to the governor.

As a Democratic governor in what has become a solidly blue state, Polis’s main constituency consists […]