I am Bryan J. Brown, founder and executive director of the ArchAngel Institute, an Indiana nonprofit corporation.
I am currently suing the Indiana Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program (JLAP), Terri Harrell, Tim Sudrovech, Elizabeth Bowman and Stephen Ross in federal district court for allegedly violating my constitutional rights by conspiring against my admission to the Indiana bar. That case was filed on December 8, 2009. Here’s some background on it; other posts at the category Brown v. Bowman further explain it.
I have also filed a petition for review with the United States Supreme Court appealing the State of Indiana’s denial of my right (yes, it is a right) to practice law in Indiana. Indiana Supreme Court Chief Judge Randall Shepard upheld a thirty page order that followed my June 1, 2009 hearing. That order was written by someone who deemed it best not to sign their name, probably because the order contained no legal analysis and flew in the face of Supreme Court precedent on how bar applicants are to be processed. Charlotte Westerhauswas appoited Grand Inquisitor on my case. Indiana Supreme Court-affiliated attorney Charles Kidd and others aided her in this work of legal fiction. Posts gathered at Brown v. Board explain this state court appeal. The entire argument will be posted at this site in the weeks to come. It is now pending before the SCOTUS. Here is the question presented.
The Indiana decision can be explained only as a the result of discrimination against a human rights activist by the Defendants in the Brown v. Bowman case. That discrimination was the alleged conspiracy.
Here is some background on why I was the target of such a conspiracy:
In 1979, at the age of 20, I gave my life to Jesus Christ and attended Whatever Happened to the Human Race in Indianapolis where Dr. Francis Schaefferand C. Everett Koop. M.D. challenged me to be an activist for justice and human life. I took up that challenge and have stayed the course ever since.
Ten years later, after it was clear that the pro-life movement was stagnating and political solutions alone were not going to end the scourge of abortion on demand I became involved in the budding Rescue Movement.
In 1990 Susan Hill, one of the foremost and most litigious agents of the culture of death in America, sued me out of economic existence from her flagship abortion clinic located in my home town at 827 Webster Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was joined in that suit by abortionist George Klopfer.
I left the Fort for Wichita, where I took a managerial role (unpaid) in the siege of late, late term abortionist George Tiller for two years. Our activism helped the University of Kansas and HCA Wesley Hospital see the benefit of shutting down a longstanding abortionist training program ran out of Wichita. This contributed to the nationwide drop in the supply of young abortionists.
I was arrested more than a few times for loitering or trespass while attempting to intercede on behalf of pre-born children in the years before I became an attorney. My most controversial arrest involved someone at the other end of the spectrum, however. I peacefully but vocally interrupted the Wichita Police Department as they roughly arrested an 83 year old Irish Catholic great grandmother who was peacefully standing on a dentist’s parking lot adjacent to an abortion clinic with an “abortion kills children” sign.
She was later exonerated. My arrest for attempting to tell the police that they were making a big mistake caused me to stand before federal judge Patrick Kelly. (Renowned for his biased Nightline appearance.) He was determined to “break me” for my beliefs regarding the Higher Laws doctrine and after a one hour in chambers discussion of the historic Christian teaching that God’s law is over man’s law this federal judge ordered me imprisoned until I would pledge unreserved obedience to his fatally overbroad and unconstitutional injunction protecting Wichita’s merchant of death.
I stood on conscience and after 68 days the federal government backed down and set me free without an oath of absolute obedience. That was 1992. Seventeen years later it is this stand on conscience and Christian teaching that ostensibly resulted in my denial of licensure in Indiana. (The civil contempt was later vacated by same court that issued the order — but that does not matter to the Indiana authorties, who claim to be advancing the highest interests of respect for the law in denying me a license in a law-free final order!)
After two years on the Wichita front I left for Regent University School of Law. Three years later I was representing pro-life and pro-family activists for the American Family Association’s Center for Law & Policy. I took on the culture of death and political correctness for Brother Don Wildmon for six years in that position, winning more than a few federal appellate cases. The most important of these cases was probably Dr. David Saxe v. State College School District – often listed as one of Justice Sam Alito’s most important decisions while he was yet on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. It struck down the leading Hate Speech code in the nation (at that time) and dealt the forces of political correctness a harsh blow.
All in the p.c. movement felt its reverberations. Even Kevin Jennings.
In 2003 I was deputized by the State of Kansas to ride with Attorney General Phill Kline as chief of his Consumer Protection and Antitrust Division. The Culture of Death called for my immediate termination from that high governmental post and their hate was echoed in the Kansas City Star and Wichita Eagle. Four years later I was the focus of the politics of personal destruction as the Left spent a reported $250,000 on a television ad painting me as a common criminal for my pro-life activism and resulting arrests.
I had been admitted to the Kansas bar in 1996, had passed character and fitness review in Montana in 1996 and in Missouri in 2006. I had been admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 2001 and passed character and fitness review after the professional scrutiny of the National Board of Law Examiners in 2005.
Yet when I applied for a law license in Indiana in April, 2007, a process that should have taken six months at the most dragged on for 31 months. I tendered more than 70 uncontroverted witness statements as to my good moral character and fitness, including statements from an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, two former attorneys general of Kansas, and many other nationally recognized persons. This process was dragged out for 23 months and finally ended (round one) with a February, 2009 vaguely worded decision that I lacked what it took to be certified as of good moral character and mental fitness in Indiana.
That order referenced no facts and contained no law.
I asked for a hearing and one was set for June 1, 2009. (round two)
Over the next few days some of that hearing transcript will be posted for all to see the focus of the Indiana Board of Law Inquisitors. Meet the Inquisitors at this post.
Read what follows and weigh the facts for yourself: Was it my religion that bothered these Grand Inquisitors of post modernity?
Or was it just my human life activism, including returning to Fort Wayne to set up the ArchAngel Institute in the very former abortion clinic that sued me out of existence two decades earlier — and reopening that judgment and prevailing some 20 years later? (Click here for more on that historic victory)
The Left has many, many reasons to hate me. But that hatred is not supposed to keep me out of the State bar. It has. Stayed tuned for proof.
I missed this February 1st since I was buried in her former abortion clinic writing a brief to the Supreme Court of the United States made necessary because I crossed swords with her, but …. I am sad to report that Susan Hill crossed over to the other side on February 1. 
