White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect pleads not guilty to assassination attempt

In a federal courtroom in Washington, a young man in shackles entered a plea of not guilty to charges that include the attempted assassination of a sitting president — a moment that places the American legal system at the intersection of political violence and institutional integrity. Yet before the question of guilt or innocence can be weighed, a deeper question has surfaced: whether those who seek to prosecute can do so without themselves standing in the shadow of the crime. The case of Cole Allen is not only a reckoning with an act of alleged violence, but a test of whether justice can be a