2026年7月6日 美国东部时间下午5:00 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：雅各布·罗森 司法部记者
一名联邦法官驳回了针对这名被指控在2021年1月6日美国国会大厦袭击事件前夕，在共和党全国委员会和民主党全国委员会总部外安置管道炸弹的男子的刑事指控动议，认定特朗普总统对骚乱参与者的全面赦免“明确限定”给那些当日因自身行为被定罪的人。
美国地区法官阿米尔·阿里驳回了小布莱恩·科尔的律师提出的动议，后者辩称其行为“与1月6日的事件密不可分且明显相关”，因此指控应被撤销。
科尔的法律团队指出，检察官提交的文件显示，科尔曾告诉联邦调查局，他前往华盛顿特区是为了参加一场2020年大选相关的抗议活动，这表明他属于“推动1月6日人群集会的同一政治争议”的一员。他们还提到，尽管炸弹据称是在1月5日安置的，但它们是在次日下午被发现的。
“不管喜欢与否，根据赦免令语言的普通和明确含义，结合本案相关事实，这项赦免适用于科尔先生，”科尔的律师写道。
在法庭文件中，司法部辩称这项赦免明确不涵盖科尔被指控的行为，阿里同意这一说法。
“即便假设科尔被指控的行为与‘2021年1月6日美国国会大厦及其附近发生的事件相关’，该赦免也明确限定给那些‘因相关事件被定罪的人’，”阿里在周一发布的一份三页意见书中写道。“总统发布赦免令时，科尔尚未因涉案行为被定罪；事实上，总统发布公告数月后，他才被指控。”
科尔于去年被指控跨州运输爆炸物以及恶意企图使用爆炸物，距离炸弹被安置已近五年。炸弹并未引爆，但联邦调查局表示它们具备爆炸威力。今年4月，联邦检察官追加了恐怖主义和大规模杀伤性武器相关指控。
他对所有指控均不认罪。
特朗普去年重返白宫后的最初几小时内发布了1月6日事件赦免令，为约1500名被指控或定罪的骚乱者提供赦免，这些人的违规行为从擅闯场馆到袭击警察不等。
Judge says alleged D.C. pipe bomber Brian Cole Jr. isn’t covered by Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons
2026-07-06 5:00 PM EDT / CBS News
By Jacob Rosen Justice Department Reporter
A federal judge rejected a motion to dismiss the criminal charges against the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, finding that President Trump’s sweeping pardons of the rioters were “expressly limited” to those who were convicted of their actions that day.
U.S. District Judge Amir Ali denied a motion by lawyers for Brian Cole Jr. arguing his actions were “inextricably and demonstrably tethered” to the events of Jan. 6 and should be dismissed.
Cole’s legal team pointed to filings by prosecutors that said Cole had told the FBI he had traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend a 2020 election-related protest, which suggested he was part of “the same political controversy that animated the January 6 crowd.” And they noted that even though the bombs were allegedly planted on Jan. 5, they were discovered on the following afternoon.
“The Pardon—like it or not—applies to Mr. Cole, based on the ordinary and plain meaning of the Pardon’s language as applied to the relevant facts in this case,” Cole’s lawyers wrote.
In court filings, the Justice Department argued the pardon explicitly does not cover Cole’s alleged conduct, which Ali agreed with.
“Even assuming that the conduct Cole is charged with is ‘related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021,’ the pardon is expressly limited to people who had been ‘convicted of offenses’ related to those events,” Ali wrote in a three-page opinion Monday. “Cole had not been convicted of the conduct at issue when the President issued the pardon; indeed, he was not charged until many months after the President’s proclamation.”
Cole was charged last year with interstate transportation of explosives and malicious attempt to use explosives almost five years after the bombs were planted. The bombs did not detonate, but the FBI has said that they were viable. In April, federal prosecutors added terrorism and weapons-of-mass-destruction charges against him.
He pleaded not guilty to the allegations against him.
Mr. Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons, issued in the first hours of his return to the White House last year, granted clemency to around 1,500 rioters accused or convicted of violations ranging from trespassing to assaulting police.
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