FEC Encourages Congress to Hold Hearings Concerning Troubling Events Occurring in the U.S. 5th Circuit

The Federal Ethics Center encourages Congress to hold hearings regarding the following troubling events occuring in the United States 5th Circuit:  click here to read letter.

  1. Last week, a 5th Circuit federal judge ultra vires demanded that Attorney General, Eric Holder Jr., confirm that the rule of Marbury v. Madison applies to the President of the United States. 

  2. In another erratic 5th Circuit initiative, Judge W. Royal Furgeson, Jr., in coordination with 5th Circuit bankruptcy Judge Stacey G.C. Jernigan, acted ultra vires in limiting the rights of U.S. citizen Jeff Baron, including expressly and strangely barring him from legal counsel in defense of an unlawful receivership proceeding against his financial interests and individual freedom, even threatening Mr. Baron with "death" by means of the combined forces of the United States Military.
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Updates on Karen Sypher

In his June 23, 2012 letter to Cardinal William Joseph Levada, David Nolan points out that :

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Newt Gingrich focuses on judicial activism in the 5th Circuit

In a campaign event last Monday in Dallas, Texas, Newt Gingrich  focused on judicial activism in the 5th Circuit . At the event, Gingrich met with judicial reform advocate, Mickey Margetis, and discussed two 5th Circuit activist judges--W. Royal Furgeson and Stacey G.C. Jernigan. As mentioned in the FEC's April 9th letter to members of Congress, these judges have been acting ultra viris, issuing orders unlawfully limiting U.S. citizens’ civil rights and unlawfully seizing and redistributing property.  
 
Despite these troubling events, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has thus far failed to curb the activism occurring in their circuit.

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Louisville lawyer Steve Pence tied to case of crooked N.Y. banker

 
Louisville lawyer Steve Pence, a for­mer Kentucky lieu­tenant gover­nor and fed­eral pros­ecutor, has been linked as an unnamed co-con­spir­ator to a fed­eral crim­inal case in New York in which an ex-bank CEO pleaded guilty to fraud.
 
Pence is not named in the crim­inal complaint against Charles J. Antonucci Sr., the for­mer chief exec­utive of the now-defunct Park Av­enue Bank in Manhattan.

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Former Karen Sypher lawyer suspended by Kentucky bar

A former federal prosecutor who may be best known for defending Karen Sypher in her extortion case involving University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino has been suspended from practice for 30 days by the Kentucky Supreme Court.
 
In an unanimous opinion, the court Thursday disciplined James Earhart for failing to immediately return a $10,000 fee in Indiana to a client's widow after the client killed himself.
 
The Supreme Court imposed the same sanction given to Earhart by Indiana's high court under Kentucky's reciprocal disciplinary rules

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Federal Ethics Center letter to Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner

http://mspbwatch.net/2011/12/13/amici-in-carson-v-osc-offer-osc-a-chance...

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