Three sky divers who parachuted off 1 World Trade Center moved a step closer to trial on Tuesday as a judge declined to throw out felony charges against them, saying they had shown a “callous disregard” for the safety of the community.

The men — James Brady, 33, Marko Markovich, 27, and Andrew Rossig, 34 — are scheduled to go on trial in January for the stunt in September 2013. Their ability to jump from the new trade tower raised questions about security at a site considered to be a prime terrorist target.

The sky divers, along with a lookout, Kyle Hartwell, 30, contend they are guilty only of trespassing. The argue they hurt no one and accuse the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., of making them scapegoats for political reasons by charging them with reckless endangerment and felony burglary.

They asked Justice Charles H. Solomon of State Supreme Court in Manhattan to dismiss the charges in the interest of justice. But Justice Solomon was unmoved; he wrote that the “defendants’ thrill-seeking conduct is nothing more than inexcusable self-indulgence.”