APRIL 25, 2024
Supreme Court Hears Case on Former President Trump's Immunity Claim
The Supreme Court heard oral argument to decide if former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for his alleged role in trying to overturn the 2020 election results. Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted him in August 2023.

D. John Sauer

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Education

Sauer graduated from Saint Louis Priory School, a Catholic secondary day school for boys in Creve Coeur, suburban St. Louis, Missouri, run by the Benedictine monks of Saint Louis Abbey.

Sauer received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. He earned a Master of Arts in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and was a 1996 Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in theology. Sauer received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was the articles editor for the Harvard Law Review.

Legal career

After law school, Sauer served as a law clerk to Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and to Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Sauer worked as a litigation associate at Cooper & Kirk and then became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. He later reentered private practice.

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