U.S. District Judge Amir Ali made the ruling Monday.
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A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s pardons for those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, don’t apply to a Virginia man charged with planting pipe bombs near the national headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties on the eve of the riot.
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali on Monday did not dismiss the case against Brian J. Cole Jr., concluding that Trump’s blanket pardons for the rioters explicitly applied only to people who were convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack, according to the Associated Press.
Cole had neither been charged nor convicted when Trump issued the pardons, the judge pointed out in his decision.
On the first day of his second term in the White House, Trump pardoned, commuted the prison sentences and ordered the dismissal of cases for all 1,500-plus people charged in the Jan. 6 attack, the newswire also reports.
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