(You remeber that crazy couple who pointed guns at BLM protesters walking past their home?)
(CNN)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 (later pardoned by the governor) 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.
In a petition submitted to the US Supreme Court last month, the McCloskeys argued that their conduct was protected by the Second Amendment and therefore could not be deemed the type of "moral turpitude" warranting disciplinary action.
I'm amazed that the SC in a red state like MO actually sanctioned them for their actions. Not surprised that the guv there pardoned them, so they suffered no real consequences for their actions except some professional embarrassment as lawyers.