[FoxNews] Judge Zia Faruqui said Cole Allen should not have been placed in a safe cell and ordered the jail to update him on conditions
A federal judge on Monday decried the prison treatment of President Donald Trump's alleged would-be assassin, and apologized to him for restrictive confinement imposed by jail staff.
Cole Allen,
…also in our archives as Cole Tomas Allen, a plain vanilla Progressive: bright, expensively educated, underperforming, and living at home with his parents because he failed to fully launch. Possibly autistic — that part remains speculation — he bought everything the Progressive world is selling about President Trump, and decided that he personally needed to fix the problem. He failed at that, too. Hopefully his trial will reveal any Antifa/Black Bloc connections, as some are claiming he attended No Kings protests…
31, has been in federal custody since prosecutors say he attempted to gain access to the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner ballroom and kill Trump along with other high-level government officials.
Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui told an attorney representing the Department of Corrections (DOC) that he was "fascinated and disturbed" by Allen's treatment in jail. Allen was placed on suicide watch when he was first imprisoned.
Suicide watch protocols mandated that Cole remain on a 24-hour lockdown in a "safe cell" and have no phone access to call or receive visits from anyone other than his legal team, according to the motion. His lawyers also wanted him to be able to obtain a tablet to assist in his legal defense.
He was also allegedly denied a copy of the Bible despite more than one request.
Prosecutor Jocelyn Ballantine reasoned that since Allen told investigators he did not expect to survive the alleged attack, he could be a danger to himself.
But an incredulous Faruqui wasn't convinced by that argument, drawing comparisons between Allen and defendants arrested for rioting at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
"To me, it’s extremely disturbing that he was put in five-point restraints, a person with no criminal history," Faruqui said, later adding that Allen is presumed innocent. "It’s troubling. I never heard of one Jan. 6 defendant who was put in five-point restraints or in a safe cell. If the only way to keep him safe is the most punitive thing, that’s a problem."
The January 6 defendants did not arm up and head off to kill everyone in the room on the way to killing the president.
The judge said even Jan. 6 defendants were only housed in a Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF), a less restrictive form of prison housing.
"Pardons may erase convictions, but they don’t erase history," he said. "They were hanging gallows outside."
Gallows? Who were hanging gallows outside where?
"What am I to say to Allen that this is going to be a fair process if we’re putting him in a safe cell when he’s not supposed to be in there?" Faruqui said. "At a minimum I should be apologizing to him. We are obligated to make sure he’s taken care of. Mr. Allen, I’m sorry that things have not been the way they are supposed to."
He also addressed Allen directly.
"The jail is going to let me know by tomorrow morning about what’s going on with your housing situation," he said, "If not, I’m going to have more questions for them. We should be able to get you into the medium portion of the jail, with windows."
"Legal visits, ask for legal visits, do not accept that these things are acceptable," Faruqui advised. "We will get you the Bible. If we can get someone vegan food, we can get you a Bible, we can make sure you’re not in five-point restraints."
The judge ordered the jail to update him by tomorrow morning about Allen's jail accommodations.
The thrashing of the DOC and prosecution followed a motion filed on Sunday by Allen's attorneys requesting he be removed from suicide precautions in prison.
However, Allen's attorneys asked to withdraw the motion on Sunday afternoon after they said they learned that Cole was no longer under the jail's suicide precautions.
Despite the withdrawal, Faruqui ordered the prosecution, defense and legal counsel for the DOC to appear before him for the Monday emergency hearing.
"The court has grave concerns about the defendants seemingly unprompted solitary confinement for days and overall conditions of confinement," Faruqui's response to the motion said. "As such, the parties and a representative of the Department of Corrections shall appear in Courtroom 4 at noon on May 4, 2026, to explain the conditions of confinement."
On April 30, Allen declined to exercise his right to a pre-trial detention hearing. He remains in custody, and is expected in court for a preliminary hearing on May 11.
MAGISTRATE JUDGE ZIA M. FARUQUI
Zia M. Faruqui was appointed as a United States Magistrate Judge on September 14, 2020. He received a B.A. and J.D. from Georgetown University. Following law school, he was a litigation associate at Willkie Farr in Washington, D.C., where he focused on government investigations and general commercial litigation. Judge Faruqui then served for twelve years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in St. Louis and Washington D.C. While there, he prosecuted cases involving terrorists use of cryptocurrency, North Korean weapons proliferation, darknet sites dedicated to child exploitation, and the theft of antiquities. He also represented the Department of Justice at numerous conferences across the globe on financial crimes, cryptocurrency, and national security issues.
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By the way, this guy does not hold a lifetime appointment. Magistrate Judges are appointed for an 8-year term, which looks like it expires in 2028. He can be reappointed, but it's possible that public comment will be requested.
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Five-point restraint looks like it'd be most inconvenient if you have to pee. Might it be accompanied by a catheter?
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I find the comparison between Allen and the J6 defendants ludicrous. Apart from the name, that tells me all I need to know about Judge Faruqui.
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[LI] Patel follows through
"A third of the crime doesn’t happen here, so we’re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out. Every state is getting a plus up," Patel said.
In 14 months, Kash Patel has done what his predecessors wouldn’t, and in many cases actively resisted: broken the FBI’s decades-long grip on Washington and started returning the bureau to its actual job.
In a draft letter to employees obtained by Fox News, the director detailed a sweeping internal overhaul. More than 1,000 agents and staff have been shifted out of D.C. and into field offices, over $300 million in spending has been cut, and artificial intelligence tools are now embedded across the bureau’s investigative operations. Patel called it a “generational” transformation, and said the changes reflect what employees inside the bureau have long demanded.
“More than 1,000 agents and staff [have been] reassigned to field offices,” he wrote, adding that the bureau has prioritized operational work over administrative overhead.
That’s only the beginning. Patel has said the bureau plans to relocate roughly 1,500 additional employees out of the D.C. area, a direct acknowledgment that the FBI’s bloated Washington presence never made operational sense.
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Send 'em all to Sacramento. I'm sure they'd find plenty of crime there...if they're willing to do anything about it.
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[RedState] Disgraced former congressman Eric Swalwell (D), who proudly joined Snapchat as one of the first lawmakers to "restore faith in democracy," instead reportedly used the app to send multiple women nude photos and explicit videos of himself masturbating.
More than a dozen women told CNN that Swalwell made them uncomfortable over the past decade, engaging in flirty and suggestive messages on Snapchat, making in-person advances, instigating prolonged touching — even trying to lure some to his hotel room. "To discuss my positions. Political positions, of course"
This was all going on while the former Democratic presidential candidate publicly positioned himself as a champion of women’s rights and defender of the MeToo movement. And married man
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This is an example of a useful idiot. The left uses the communist playbook on every aspect of their operations. If one were to think the dem leadership did not know of his antics with spies and minors, one would be delusional. He was useful in spreading the lie about russia. Now that this has proven to be a lie, they are releasing this to slander him out so when he names names no one will listen and the politburo is safe...
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Speaking of... finally saw the "Bassura" ad...
"Does this Latin ass make me look fat?"
"No se, Barbie," replied Sr. Spratt
As he took her to play
With his based SLA.
[Pat with Spencer instead of a gat]
[Breitbart] Insatiable for new revenue, never for spending cuts
Spanberger Hints That Virginia Could See Taxes on Gym Memberships and Streaming Services
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) hinted that she was open to the possibility of taxes for streaming services or gym memberships, noting that if an idea is “reasonable and makes some amount of sense,” it “should be entertained.”
During an interview with Tyler Englander, a Virginia State Capitol reporter with ABC8 News, Spanberger was asked if she would sign a bill creating “a new tax on streaming services, dry cleaning,” and other things if it ended up on her “desk in future years as governor.”
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The photo of that kurva pretty much explains things.
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