Admittedly, usually, it’s pretty difficult to lose law licenses over misdemeanor crimes that don’t involve lying or deceit in some way. On the other hand, brandishing guns as a show of force and intimidation at perfectly peaceful Black Lives Matter march to the home of St. Louis’s mayor in opposition to the George Floyd killing is about as bad as misdemeanors get.

Both Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the two gunnerz in the famous picture that went around the world were attorneys, right up until their licenses were suspended over the incident. The two brought their guns out, purportedly to protect their home, as Black Lives Matter protesters march peacefully by. One suspects that it is because the McCloskeys would not have had the same response to a “Breast Cancer Awareness” march, only a BLM protest, as the underlying reason for the suspension.

And now they’ve been turned down by the top. According to USA Today:

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a St. Louis couple potentially facing indefinite suspension of their law licenses after they waved guns at a racial justice protest outside their home in 2020.

Mark McCloskey, a personal injury attorney and Republican candidate for Senate in Missouri, and his wife Patricia McCloskey drew national attention for walking onto their front yard with guns during a protest of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The protesters were walking to the home of the St. Louis mayor at the time. Mark McCloskey pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment.

Well, they’ll always have that picture to remember it all pass by. So will the rest of the world and thus ends their legal careers. Now we can only hope that Missouri is smart enough to not elect Mark to the U.S. Senate.

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman