DOJ Releases Photos of Suspect in White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooting

In the shadow of one of Washington's most prominent annual gatherings, a man named Cole Allen now sits at the center of a federal case that asks an ancient question: how does a society protect itself from those who would strike at its public life? The Department of Justice, armed with photographs showing Allen in a hotel room before gunfire broke out at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, is pressing a federal court to keep him detained without bail. The images speak to premeditation, and the case speaks to something larger — the fragility of open civic space and the weight courts must car