The Supreme Court has declined to take up a case brought to it by a Missouri GOP Senate candidate and his wife, seeking review of the disciplinary action they faced, as lawyers, for pointing guns at racial justice protesters outside their St. Louis home
The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case brought to it by a Missouri Republican Senate candidate and his wife, who were seeking review of the professional disciplinary action they faced, as lawyers, for pointing guns at racial justice protestors demonstrating outside their St. Louis home.
There were no noted dissents to the court's move to refuse to grant the case. Mark and Patricia McCloskey faced disciplinary action from the Missouri Supreme Court earlier last year, after they pleaded guilty to misdemeanors related to the June 2020 incident. The Missouri Supreme Court had found their conduct to have amounted to"moral turpitude" deserving of professional legal sanction.
Rep. Cori Bush slams Missouri governor over controversial pardon 02:10In videos posted to social media, Mark McCloskey is seen holding an AR-15 style rifle and Patricia McCloskey a pistol as the protestors walked by, and the images have played a prominent role in Mark McCloskey's Senate race. Mark McCloskey told CNN at the time that he was"in imminent fear they would run me over, kill me." The McCloskeys went on to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges. After Republican Gov.