The Department of Justice (DOJ) requested that a judge deny a motion to dismiss the case against a man accused of planting two pipe bombs in Washington on the night before protesters breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Court documents filed on April 10 revealed that prosecutors pushed back on claims that the suspect, Brian J. Cole Jr., should have his case tossed out because he was preemptively pardoned under President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025, proclamation.
Prosecutors argued that Trump’s pardons only gave relief to people who were “convicted of” or had a “pending indictment” for offenses that were related to the events at, or near, the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to legal documents reviewed by The Epoch Times….