Ewing was eventually promoted to a prosecutor and worked on a series of cases against public officials involved in moonshine production.

[4] In 1981, Ronald Reagan nominated Ewing to serve as the United States Attorney for the western district of Tennessee.

[2] In 1993, Ewing was the prosecutor in a mock trial of James Earl Ray, who pled guilty to assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., but later claimed that he was innocent and only accepted the plea bargain to avoid the death penalty.

[5] Ewing was the special prosecutor who oversaw the Whitewater investigation of president Bill Clinton and his former associates at the Rose Law Firm.

[4] White House communications director Sidney Blumenthal described Ewing as "a religious fanatic who operates on a presumption of guilt.