President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to nominate John Sauer, his personal lawyer who argued his immunity case at the Supreme Court last term, to be US solicitor general.
Sauer is a former federal prosecutor who served as Missouri’s solicitor general from 2017 to 2023. In that role, he tried to intervene on behalf of Missouri and five other states in support of Texas’ unsuccessful fight to keep Trump in power by challenging the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Sauer has also been involved in other high-profile conservative battles, including challenges to the Biden administration’s efforts to ...
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