Chuck C. Johnson smiling next to Lee Harvey Oswald’s sniper rifle at the JFK Museum in Dallas

The Riverfront Times has a report today on the wingnut lawyer representing the dreaded Ginger Avenger, Chuck C. Johnson, in his quixotic quest to regain his Twitter account: St. Louis Lawyer Fighting to Reinstate Troll King Charles Johnson on Twitter.

Look out, they’ll be suing the Riverfront Times next for calling Johnson a “troll king” instead of an “award winning high-IQ journalist.”

Has St. Louis’ own John Burns grown up since his Tea Partying activist days? Yes and no.

Back in 2010, Burns was best known as the leader of a campaign opposing a MetroLink tax hike. He also took on roles organizing a disruption of an LGBT rally, staging a “campus gulag” at Washington University and assisting right-wing prankster James O’Keefe in a plot to “seduce” a CNN reporter.

Nowadays, rather than meddling in Tea Party politics or engineering ill-intentioned pranks, Burns is a lawyer — but he hasn’t exactly gone to the boring, corporate side of the law. In fact, he’s currently representing none other than Charles C. Johnson, the widely reviled blogger who late last month was banned from Twitter after soliciting funds to be used for “taking out” Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson.

It will be a big surprise if Chuck and his “legal counsel” actually follow through on their threats to sue Twitter, because they can’t possibly win, and proceeding with such an obviously frivolous suit would open Burns to the possibility of sanction by his state’s bar — and open Chuck Johnson to the likelihood of being on the hook for all of Twitter’s legal costs when he loses. (Not “if,” “when.”)