Overview
- Justice Department lawyers urged immediate detention, citing acute mental health concerns and alarming livestreams, including one filmed from the Pentagon parking lot.
- U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols declined to jail Taylor Taranto on the spot, ordering him to leave Washington by noon and return to Washington state while he considers the request.
- Rep. Jamie Raskin’s security was temporarily increased after local police reported spotting Taranto near the congressman’s Takoma Park residence, according to a probation officer.
- Taranto’s probation officer recommended tighter monitoring and psychiatric treatment instead of incarceration, while his attorney disputed that he was outside Raskin’s home and contested the alleged violations.
- Taranto’s Jan. 6 charges were dismissed after President Trump’s mass pardons, but he was convicted in May of weapons possession and a hoax bomb threat and received time served plus supervised release, with a probation hearing set for Dec. 10.