Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) on Tuesday fulfilled his promise to pardon Mark and Patricia McCloskey after the wealthy St. Louis couple pleaded guilty to pointing their firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters who were passing by their home last summer.
Justice seems to have suffered another miscarriage.
The McCloskeys and the Gov. of Missouri deserve nothing but scorn. This is a travesty.
Party of anarchy.
catma, I blame much of this - the erosion, nay, destruction of societal norms that accompanied trump into the White House.
But, not only trump. His aides, associates, representatives, and appointees all suffered from massive character flaws, not even talking about their amazing self-dealing and grifting. I am surprised our country survived. and I am still not convinced the worst of trump is over.
And finally, not so much of a miscarriage, but an intentional abortion.
“He believes that the pardon vindicates that conduct.”
No it means that the Guv is pandering to certain constituencies.
Laws don’t apply to Refucklicans.
So do these assholes lose their Lawyer Licenses? Aren’t they convicted felons now?
O/T In other news, an AZ State senator has invoked a recently conceived law to force the attorney general to investigate Maricopa County Board for not complying with the audit request for routers, passwords, blah,blah, yatayata.
From the article:
Under a state law passed several years ago, lawmakers can request such investigations if they believe a city, town or county has adopted a policy that violates state law. The attorney general is obligated to do such an investigation and produce a report within 30 days of the request.
If the investigation finds the local government did indeed violate state law, the town, city or county has 30 days to resolve the situation or lose its share of state-shared sales tax. For the budget year that ended in June, Maricopa County received $715 million.
The provision was successfully used to shut down local gun ordinances and to end Bisbee’s local ban on plastic-bag use.
You just have to love that the Republicans in AZ became so incensed at the tiny town of Bisbee for daring to do anything that might help the environment that they invoked this law and threatened them with loss of revenue. Hilarious.
It’s nice to be white in Missouri…
SWINGERS?
Must be my dirty mind.
They had already pled guilty to misdemeanor charges. This just means they have pled guilty twice. The only helpful thing this pardon does, is let them off the hook for their monetary damages and court costs, etc.
Cheney challenger.
To paraphrase Trumpy, the only good Republican is a dead Republican. Republicans are corrupt to the core.
Uhh, if you are coming after a Cheney, you better not miss. Ouch. Those folks play rough.
To give you an idea of just how big a dick Mark McCloskey is, when he was fined $1,800 by a judge for filing frivolous legal motions, he paid the fine in dimes.
“Mark McCloskey has publicly stated that if he were involved in the same situation, he would have the exact same conduct,” the attorney told the Associated Press. “He believes that the pardon vindicates that conduct.”
But, isn’t the acceptance of a pardon an admission of guilt? What’s changed?
He did admit it. His take is, “Yeah, I did it. What you gonna do about it?” IOKIYAR
I’ve got that report for them right here:
“Fuck you. Strong letter to follow.”