The men who say they were ensnared in a government entrapment scheme to kidnap Michigan’s governor will have to prove their case in trial after a federal judge denied their motion to dismiss the charges. U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker made his ruling Jan. 25, setting the stage for defendants Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta to stand trial on March 8 in one of the most high-profile domestic terrorism cases in decades. In separate orders a day later, Jonker also denied defendant Franks’ motions to provide FBI agents and informants with sovereign immunity, as well as to introduce evidence related to the presence of federal informants at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riots. The defendants had moved to dismiss the charges against them in a Dec. 25 motion, arguing that the FBI’s use of at least 12 informants amounted to entrapment. The defendants’ …