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Racial Injustice MissouriThe 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 summer 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.
MISSOURI SUPREME COURT PLACES MARK AND PATRICIA MCCLOSKEY ON PROBATION AS LAWYERS
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.
The McCloskeys argued in the appeal to the highest court in the nation that the Missouri Supreme Court violated their Second Amendment as well as due process rights.
The couple argued they were “exercising lawful rights to bear arms in defense of their person, family, and home” in the midst of a group of protesters who entered their gated community.
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Together, the couple work at the McCloskey Law Center, focusing on personal injury, medical malpractice, and defective products cases.
Mark McCloskey is one of several candidates running to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Roy Blunt.
