The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Mark and Patricia McCloskey’s appeal of a ruling to suspend their law licenses indefinitely over the infamous 2020 incident when the lawyer couple waved their guns at non-violent Black Lives Matter protesters marching near their home in St. Louis, Missouri.
He’s one of several Republicans vying for the nomination ahead of the states August primaries.
Which states?
I’ve wondered why the pro gun crowd never concerned itself with the woman in this incident. She has her finger on the trigger of her pistol and is pointing it at people. That’s a crime and grossly unsafe.
The gun nuts tout gun safety as what they’re about. Not in this case it seems. The woman should be jailed.
Are the McCloskeys going to Texas A&M, too?
No problem here with licensed attorneys flaunting the very laws they’re supposed to uphold. Just don’t do anymore criming from this point on, you silly kids! (Or we’ll have to find another meaningless slap-on-the-wrist punishment for you to publicly save face.)
Declined to get involved in a case for which the McCloskeys have been pardoned by the governor and are allowed to continue practicing law as long as they don’t commit crimes for a year. Earthshaking.
I’m sure they’ve already filled out their application for wingnut welfare.
Looks like they fill up at the local Golden Corral…
McCloskey’s = Pardoned Pigs (with all due respect to honorable pigs…)
Oh looky, this Monday must be MO-day.
Part of the pardon deal was:
Earlier this year, the court indefinitely suspended the McCloskeys’ law licenses but stayed their suspensions and placed them on probation for a year. As a condition of their probation, they are required to provide 100 hours of pro bono legal services to organizations that provide free legal services for poor or indigent Missouri residents.
The MO SC determined that their choice of an organization was Project Veritas, which does not provide free legal work for poor people-anywhere in the US, was not acceptable.
And the polls I’ve seen is that Mark is in single digit support for replacing Blunt. Media whores are going to whore.
Their neighbors certainly hope so. The McCloskeys are litigious folk. Dangerous too or should I say two?
Haven’t they already shown up on the 700 Club and testified about how they was doin the work of The Lawd with them heathens?
Just clarifying for myself. The probation is with regards to the law license suspension in which the MO Supreme Court is telling what the McCloskeys can, must, or cannot do while they are still allowed to practice law during the one year. The McCloskeys received a pardon in 2021 for the original law breaking. The US Supreme Court is simply declining now to get involved in the separate state bar disciplinary actions.
I can’t see how SCOTUS has an in on a state BAR action. I’m sure they cannot directly change a state BAR decision and would have to declare the reasoning for it unconstitutional to play in it at all.
He wanted to be able to keep practicing law even while committing crimes; he is running a republican election campaign, after all.
A shockingly transparent state of mind admission that “i am now and will continue to break the law.”
That does have appeal to a certain class of clientele
That’s because you are using the logical definition of ‘operating a gun in a manner that does not cause unintentional harm to yourself or others’.
What gun nuts mean by ‘gun safety’ are guns used by white people, regardless of the manner of their operation.
Her fashion choices are criminal as well.
Yet guns are not subject to any product safety standards.
At least they don’t let the makers of toasters facilitate killing someone by accident
Really? I’m not sure I’ve heard any of them tout safety except in the context of some police department training that emphasizes aggressive law enforcement to keep cops safe from a brown person who might yell at them for being shitty cops.