Supreme Court denies appeal over law licenses from gun-waving Missouri couple
washingtonexaminer.com
The Supreme Court denied a bid by a Missouri couple who potentially face indefinite suspension of their law licenses after they carried guns outside their home as protesters for racial justice marched in the summer of 2020.
Mark McCloskey, a personal injury attorney and GOP candidate for Senate in Missouri, along with his wife Patricia McCloskey, drew headlines two years ago after they held firearms on their front lawn amid a protest over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
People participating in the protest had entered the neighborhood of the McCloskeys', located near the home of the St. Louis mayor at the time.
The husband and wife pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in June over the incident. While Missouri Gov. Mike Parson gave a pardon to the couple last year, the state office responsible for investigating misconduct by attorneys sought to suspend their law licenses.
Missouri's Supreme Court decided to suspend their licenses indefinitely in February but stayed the suspensions and put the lawyers on probation for one year with conditions including quarterly reports to a probation monitor in addition to 100 hours of free legal services.