A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump’s pardons for those charged in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot do not apply to a Virginia man accused of planting pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national committees before the attack.
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali declined to dismiss the case against Brian J. Cole Jr., finding that Trump’s sweeping January 6 pardons applied only to people who had been convicted of crimes connected to the Capitol riot, according to the Associated Press.
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