St. Louis progressive prosecutor Kim Gardner may be in trouble

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is may be in deep dung as she faces a disciplinary hearing that might result in the loss of her law license. What will she do if she can't crap on the Second Amendment and side with criminals over the victims? Maybe she can sell salve on Amazon.

It began in 2019 when Alan Pratzel, chief disciplinary counsel, appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court, launched an investigation and found probable cause that Gardner committed professional misconduct stemming from her attempts to prosecute former Republican Gov. Eric Greitens, according to KMOV.

"As the Circuit Attorney has repeatedly proven time after time, she has acted in full accordance with the law during the investigation into former Governor Greitens," Gardner's office claimed in a statement released Tuesday evening. Okay, where's the proof?

"Despite several investigations attempting to uncover illegal wrongdoing by her office in this case, none has ever been found. We are confident that a full review of the facts will show that the Circuit Attorney has not violated the ethical standards of the State of Missouri." 

Maybe she hides the evidence well.

In a separate investigation, Gardner made national headlines in the Mark and Patricia McCloskey case. The couple was indicted by a St. Louis grand jury last October on felony charges of unlawful use of a weapon and tampering with evidence. Actually they didn't really "use" their weapons, they simply displayed them to a mob trespassing on their property and the properties of their neighbors.

The McCloskeys are both defense attorneys in their 60s. They can be seen in viral photographs [see below] with guns outside their mansion as demonstrators marched through their private St. Louis neighborhood on the way to the home of then-Mayor Lyda Krewson on June 28 amid nationwide protests in response to the death of a long time criminal and illicit drug-user named George Floyd.

The couple said they felt threatened after the mob destroyed an iron gate and ignored a "No Trespassing" sign. Protest leaders denied damaging the gate and said the march was peaceful, with whom CNN and MSNBC didn't argue.

In a statement last June, Gardner described the encounter between the McCloskeys and the crowd as "a violent assault" against those exercising their First Amendment rights. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, previously called Gardner’s action toward the couple "outrageous."

The Second Amendment counts just as much as the First, and without the Second, the First Amendment would fall along with the republic.

Last month, a smart, Jewish lawyer representing the McCloskeys, Joel Schwartz, filed a motion seeking to send the case back to the grand jury to decide if the couple should have been indicted in the first place. He cited alleged "bias" at Gardner’s office that he said tainted the grand jury process. But Circuit Judge David Mason denied the motion on Friday and set trial for Nov. 1. 

The next hearing will be in June.

Politico recently reported that Mark McCloskey is considering running for the Senate in 2022 after Republican Sen. Roy Blunt announced in March he would not seek reelection. Greitens had already announced in March that he will seek the Republican nomination for Senate in 2022.

Gardner is just seeking to keep her law license.

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