Pete Wirs is the only person in recent history to successfully sue the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court was having problems in 1993 getting Congress to adequately fund the civil jury fee fund. The Court administrator recommended that Pete Wirs actually sue the Supreme Court on mandamus. He did and he won. Congress rapidly replenished the civil jury fee fund that year.
Pete Wirs was Pennsylvania's first candidate for public office (and first notary public)under age 21.When the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect, Pete Wirs became the first candidate in Pennsylvania for public office under the age of 21 and also became Pennsylvania's first notary under the age 21.
Pete Wirs is the trustee of the Roosevelt-Bentman Trust for American Voters. There are not many charitable trusts involved
in politics today, but the Roosevelt-Bentman Trust is an exception. Pete Wirs is the trustee of the Roosevelt-Bentman Trust which is dedicated to protecting First Amendment right of political association of voters and their elected precinct Democratic and Republican committeemen and committeewomen. Once a staple of American politics, today's popularly elected precinct committee people have been shunned to the side by secret Super-PACs, 527s and Washington insiders. The Roosevelt-Bentman Trust works to restore the voters' right to express their will within their chosen political parties through their elected committee people.
The Nation's Largest Court-Supervised Urban Renewal. Pete Wirs is also Chairman and Executive Director of The Germantown Conservancy, a 501(c)(3) community development corporation that acts primarily as a court-appointed conservator (receiver of real property) of abandoned and blighted property under Pennsylvania's Act 135. The Conservancy is attempting to save over 600 abandoned and blighted properties throughout the historic Germantown section of Philadelphia.