President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is probing the state conviction of Tina Peters — the first election official found guilty of a felony over 2020 election conspiracy theories — to see if there were “abuses of the criminal justice process” and a legal bias “toward inflicting political pain,” the DOJ says.

Peters, 69, was convicted last August on seven counts of engaging in a security breach related to unauthorized access to voting machines while she worked as a county clerk in Mesa County, Colorado. In October — after a marathon hearing in which Peters repeatedly expressed defiance and stuck to her theories — Peters was sentenced to nine years in state prison for her felony offenses.

“I am convinced you would do it all over again if you could,” U.S. District Judge Matthew Barrett told Peters at her sentencing.

“You’re as defiant as any defendant this court has ever seen,” Barrett blasted. “You are no hero. You abused your position and you’re a charlatan.”

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On Monday, DOJ lawyers filed a “Statement of Interest” in the District of Colorado announcing its review of Peters’ case — saying “reasonable concerns” have been raised recently regarding her conviction and incarceration.

“These concerns relate to, among other things, the exceptionally lengthy sentence imposed relative to the conduct at issue, the First Amendment implications of the trial court’s October 2024 assertions relating to Ms. Peters, and whether Colorado’s denial of bail pending appeal was arbitrary or unreasonable under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments such that relief is appropriate,” the filing said.