The Supreme Court decided on June 6 not to hear the appeal of a U.S. Senate candidate whose law license was restricted after he wielded a gun outside his St. Louis home in 2020 to deter a group of trespassing left-wing protesters in the midst of nationwide race riots.
Attorney Mark McCloskey is currently running for a U.S. Senate seat as a Republican. The primary election will take place in Missouri on Aug. 2.
McCloskey argued in his petition to the high court that he should not be punished as a lawyer for exercising his constitutional right of self-defense.
For defending their home on June 28, 2020, during violent nationwide protests organized by Black Lives Matter and Antifa, McCloskey and his wife, Patricia, were honored speakers at the 2020 Republican National Convention. The couple who gained folk hero status in the conservative movement as a result of the encounter are both lawyers and both were sanctioned by the bar in Missouri for displaying firearms in the presence of what they said was an angry mob they believed intended to do them harm….