D. John Sauer

Dean John Sauer (born November 13, 1974) is an American lawyer and politician who has been the 49th Solicitor General of the United States since 2025. He was the Solicitor General of Missouri from 2017 to 2023. He also represented former President Donald Trump in his successful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. United States.U.S. Court of Appeals. District of Columbia Circuit. (9 January 2024). "District of Columbia Circuit Court Oral Arguments on Former President Trump's Immunity Claims". C-SPAN. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

Early life
Sauer was born on November 13, 1974. He was raised in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Sauer graduated from Duke University in 1997. He then studied at Oriel College at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. He later went to University of Notre Dame and then Harvard Law School.

Legal career
Sauer worked as a litigation associate at Cooper & Kirk and then became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri.

In 2015, Sauer successfully vindicated a priest who had been falsely accused of sexually abusing children.

In January 2017, then-Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley made Sauer Solicitor General of Missouri.

On January 9, 2024, he represented former President Donald Trump in oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit about the issue of presidential immunity in the criminal case of United States of America v. Donald J. Trump.

U.S. Solicitor General
On November 14, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he planned to nominate Sauer to serve as the next Solicitor General of the United States. His nomination was confirmed by the Senate on April 4, 2025, by a vote of 52–45. He took office the same day.

In May, 2025, Sauer asked the Supreme Court of the United States to include DOGE as a "presidential advisory body" within the Executive Office of the President.

References

Other websites
 Appearances at the U.S. Supreme Court from the Oyez Project

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