After Endorsing Posting 10 Commandments In Classrooms, Rep. Lauren Boebert Ordered To Appear In Court For Failing To Pay Speeding Ticket

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) had been ordered to attend Eagle County District Court for neglecting to pay a $174.50 speeding ticket, which she received in May, on time.

According to county police, the representative was caught on the morning of May 12, Mother’s Day, on Interstate 70 near mile marker 189 in a black Mazda CX-50.

The Colorado State Patrol clocked Boebert going 84 miles per hour in a 65-mile-per-hour zone on May 12 at around 10:05 a.m. She was ordered to pay a $174.50 fine. 

She was driving on the Vail Pass portion of I-70 westbound in Colorado, the Colorado State Patrol said.

The congresswoman was ordered to appear in Eagle County District Court on July 26 after failing to pay off the ticket within the required 20-day deadline so that the citation would not be sent to court. 

If a ticket is over 40 days old, the department states it cannot accept payment, and the case will be referred to court.

“Tickets that aren’t paid to the state before their twenty-day deadline, they’ll get sent to the court,” the Eagle County District Court clerk told Westword. “Her case got forwarded to the court, we opened a case, and she took a standard plea offer.”

They also mentioned that Boebert contacted Eagle County District Court on July 3 to pay off her ticket after learning she had a court appearance scheduled because she had failed to pay within 20 days.

Boebert’s campaign manager, Drew Sexton, noted that the speeding ticket was ultimately paid off on July 3.

Sexton said she sent a check for the ticket to the revenue department instead of paying it through the online system, but the check somehow ended up being sent back to her.

Her campaign manager stated it needed to be clarified why she sent a check instead of utilizing the online system.

During an appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast in late June, Boebert backed displaying the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

She praised Louisiana’s controversial new law, signed by Gov. Jeff Landry (R-Louisiana), which mandates the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. 

Her comments inspired mockery on X as users noted the irony of her comments and called her a “hypocrite” after she had been caught on camera groping her date at a theater last year. 

At the end of June, Boebert won a Republican primary in Colorado’s red fourth Congressional district, and she is expected to win two more years in office in November.