By Óscar Contreras | Denver7
Consortium alleges NCAR dismantling is “collateral damage” for Colorado’s refusal to bow down to the Trump administration and its demands to end mail-in voting and release Tina Peters from prison.
DENVER — A consortium of more than 100 colleges and universities filed a lawsuit Monday against their federal partners, alleging the dismantling of Boulder’s National Center for Atmospheric Research by the Trump administration is illegal and part of a “campaign of retaliation” against the state of Colorado.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court of Colorado by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research against the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies and its leaders, alleges the dismantling of NCAR is motivated by the Trump administration’s opposition to Colorado’s mail-in voting system and the imprisonment of disgraced former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is serving a nine-year sentence for tampering with Colorado’s election systems in the 2020 presidential election.
UCAR claims that because Colorado refuses to relinquish to the federal government powers the U.S. Constitution has reserved to the state, the defendants have “undertaken a series of retributive actions designed to coerce and punish Colorado.”
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