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一名被指控在2021年1月6日国会山骚乱前夕于共和党全国委员会和民主党全国委员会总部外放置管道炸弹的男子，要求法官驳回对他的刑事指控，称其行为受特朗普总统对所谓1月6日骚乱者的全面赦免令保护。
小布赖恩·科尔（Brian Cole Jr.）的律师周一提交的动议，是这起多年悬而未决案件的最新转折——也是对1月6日赦免令适用范围的最新考验。
他的律师辩称，对已否认有罪的科尔提出的指控”与1月6日事件有着密不可分且确凿的联系”。
他们指出，检察官的文件显示科尔告诉联邦调查局，他前往华盛顿特区是为了参加2020年与选举相关的抗议活动，这表明他是”引发1月6日人群骚乱的同一政治争议的一部分”。他们还指出，尽管炸弹据称在1月5日被放置，但直到次日下午才被发现。
“无论喜欢与否，这份赦免令适用于科尔先生，”科尔的律师写道，”基于赦免令措辞的普通明确含义及其在本案相关事实中的应用。”
在联邦当局近五年未能确定嫌疑人后，科尔于去年年底被指控犯有跨州运输爆炸物和恶意使用爆炸物未遂罪。炸弹未爆炸，但联邦调查局称其具有杀伤力。特朗普政府官员曾将侦破此案列为优先事项。
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去年特朗普重返白宫数小时后发布的1月6日赦免令，为约1500名骚乱被告提供了救济，他们被指控从非法侵入到袭击警察等各种罪名。总统赦免了除14名因1月6日相关罪行被定罪者外的所有人，并指示司法部对尚未被定罪者寻求驳回指控。
目前尚不清楚特朗普的赦免令是否适用于科尔。该命令称赦免令适用于”与2021年1月6日在美国国会大厦或附近发生的事件相关的罪行”——而科尔被指控在事件发生前一天放置炸弹。
科尔的律师辩称，”相关”一词可适用于2021年1月6日当天未发生但与该日事件相关的罪行。
这并非首个考验1月6日赦免令适用范围的刑事案件。
在多起案件中，当局搜查了1月6日被告的住所，据称发现非法枪支，导致这些被指控的骚乱者面临1月6日相关指控和武器持有指控。政府在部分案件中辩称，特朗普先生的赦免令应涵盖其所有指控，而非仅与国会山骚乱直接相关的指控。一名被告获得第二次赦免以涵盖其枪支指控。
另一名骚乱者爱德华·凯利（Edward Kelley）被单独指控在1月6日进入国会大厦并威胁调查他的联邦调查局特工。在他的案件中，联邦检察官辩称特朗普的赦免令不涵盖针对联邦调查局的威胁相关指控，驳回了凯利的驳回动议。他被判处终身监禁。
纽约库德曼·特拉克滕·阿洛·波斯纳律师事务所合伙人、前联邦检察官米切尔·埃普纳（Mitchell Epner）表示，科尔的所谓行为有可能被特朗普的1月6日全面赦免令涵盖。他称这是”唐纳德·特朗普对法治无情攻击的意外后果”。
“当你试图让刑事定罪取决于个人一时兴起，并将其转化为法律条文时，很可能会处理得非常糟糕，”埃普纳告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
Alleged Capitol Hill pipe bomber argues charges should be tossed out under Trump pardons
Updated on: March 16, 2026 / 11:33 PM EDT / CBS News
A man who was accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack in 2021 is asking a judge to dismiss the criminal charges against him, arguing he is covered by President Trump’s sweeping pardons of alleged Jan. 6 rioters.
Monday’s motion from lawyers for Brian Cole Jr. marks the latest twist in a case that remained unsolved for years — and the latest test of how extensively the Jan. 6 pardons could apply.
His attorneys argued that the charges against Cole, who has pleaded not guilty, are “inextricably and demonstrably tethered” to the events of Jan. 6.
They pointed to filings by prosecutors that say Cole told the FBI he had traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend a 2020 election-related protest, which suggests he was part of “the same political controversy that animated the January 6 crowd.” And they note 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.
Cole was charged late last year with interstate transportation of explosives and malicious attempt to use explosives, after federal authorities were unable to identify a suspect in the case for almost five years. The bombs did not detonate, but the FBI has said they were viable. Trump administration officials had described solving the case as a top priority.
CBS News has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
The Jan. 6 pardons, issued hours after Mr. Trump returned to the White House last year, granted relief to around 1,500 riot defendants who were accused of everything from trespassing to assaulting police. The president wiped away criminal convictions for all but 14 of those who were convicted of Jan. 6-related offenses, and directed the Justice Department to seek to dismiss charges against those who had not yet been convicted.
It’s not clear whether Mr. Trump’s pardon order applies to Cole. The order says the pardons apply to “offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021” — and Cole is accused of planting the bombs one day beforehand.
Cole’s lawyers argue that the phrase “related to” could apply to offenses that did not take place on Jan. 6, 2021, as long as they were linked to the events of that day.
This isn’t the first criminal case that has tested the limits of the Jan. 6 pardons.
In several cases, authorities searched the homes of Jan. 6 defendants and allegedly found unlawful firearms, leading the accused rioters to face both Jan. 6 and weapons possession charges. The government has argued in some of those cases that the pardons issued by Mr. Trump should cover all charges against them, not just the ones directly tied to the Capitol riot. One defendant was granted a second pardon to cover his gun charges.
Another rioter, Edward Kelley, was charged separately with both entering the Capitol on Jan. 6 and threatening the FBI agents who investigated him. In his case, federal prosecutors argued Mr. Trump’s pardon did not cover the charges related to threats against the FBI, pushing back on Kelley’s motion to dismiss. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Mitchell Epner, a partner at the New York law firm Kudman Trachten Aloe Posner and former federal prosecutor, says it is possible that Cole’s alleged conduct was covered by Mr. Trump’s Jan. 6 sweeping pardons. He called it an “unintended consequence of Donald Trump’s unrelenting attack upon the rule of law.”
“When you try to have criminal guilt turn on your whim and you have to convert it into words, it’s possible to do it very badly,” Epner told CBS News.