A federal trial is scheduled to start in February for a Virginia man charged with planting pipe bombs near the national headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capitol.

The trial for Brian J. Cole Jr. is set to begin Feb. 16 and last about two weeks. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali set the trial date during a brief hearing Wednesday.

Zachary Lawson, one of Cole's lawyers, told Ali that defense attorneys and prosecutors have not discussed the possibility of a plea deal to resolve the case.

On Monday, the judge ruled that President Donald Trump's pardons related to Jan. 6 offenses do not apply to Cole. Ali declined to dismiss Cole's case before trial, rejecting defense attorneys' argument that their client is covered by the pardons because his alleged actions were "inextricably and demonstrably tethered" to the events near the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Ali, who was nominated by former President Joe Biden, a Democrat, concluded that Trump's Jan. 6 pardons explicitly apply only to individuals convicted of offenses related to the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Cole was arrested nearly a year after Trump, a Republican, pardoned, commuted the prison sentences of, and ordered the dismissal of cases for all 1,500-plus people charged in relation to Jan. 6. Prosecutors have said that Cole gave a confession when FBI agents questioned him after his arrest.

Cole is accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee headquarters near the Capitol on the night of Jan. 5, 2021. The devices did not detonate before law enforcement officers discovered them on Jan. 6.

A grand jury indicted Cole on four counts: interstate transportation of explosives, malicious intent to use explosives, an act of terrorism while armed, and attempting to use weapons of mass destruction.