I had a thread about it, at https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4289605/posts
The prevailing thought there was that the DOJ could argue that Colorado deprived Tina Peters of her 14th Amendment due process rights. And I think they did, because even though the laws she supposedly broke required illegal intent, the judge decided immediately that she couldn’t say anything about election integrity or the crimes she uncovered - thereby not allowing her to defend her motives, which are the sole issue within the actual statutes cited against her.
There were other ideas too, but the above seems the most promising.
I do remember she was forbidden for speaking in her own defense. So evil.