Pro Se Supreme Court (PSSC) was born out of the realization-that due to the chilling effects of the Feres doctrine, American military members and families are treated as “second class citizens” when it comes to retaining competent legal representation in our justice system that costs anywhere from $400.00 or more an hour.

Most specifically, PSSC was established after its Founder, Leigh E. Wise and V’ERPA Founder, Jeffrey A. Trueman assisted an American family who’s military loved one died at the hands of an grossly/criminally negligent Marine Corp drill instructor and when their attorneys who promised to take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court-dropped the case after a U.S. District Judge dismissed the cause of action based upon “lack of subject matter jurisdiction” due to the Feres doctrine and the U.S. Appeals Court upheld the dismissal.

The history of “pro se” representation is an interesting one to say the least. In the early days of our Republic, lawyers were actually banned outright or faced tight restrictions. As a matter of fact, Abe Lincoln, a non-lawyer before he talked a judge into granting him attorney status-and before the “American Bar Association” or “ABA” was formed-he did just fine; as we U.S. Veterans are doing just fine; in fighting for liberty and property rights arising from injustices arising “incident to [our] military service” due to the Feres doctrine and its judicial bar that violates our First Amendment of the United States Constitution rights to “petition the government for redress of grievance.” Henceforth, our motto “The Right To Be Heard Comes First”. In all, once the “ABA” convinced state legislatures to pass what is known as "unauthorized practice of law" statutes in the 1920s and 1930s, this effectively gave lawyers a monopoly over the sale of legal information and now-the astronomical costs of legal help in American Jurisprudence.

In sum, PSSC is a critical progeny of V’ERPA as most military injustice victims cannot afford the high cost of legal representation due to the long-process and substantial work involved in prevailing in an “intramilitary” justice related matter. Thus, we will continue to build PSSC in the years to come while we also focus on Feres doctrine reform.