Early life and education
Sauer was born on November 13, 1974 to a prominent St. Louis family in business and politics. [1] He attended Saint Louis Priory School, a Catholic secondary day school for boys in Creve Coeur, Missouri, run by the Benedictine monks of Saint Louis Abbey.
Sauer graduated from Duke University in 1997 with a double Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. He then won a Rhodes Scholarship to study in England at the University of Oxford, where he earned a second Bachelor of Arts in theology from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1999. [2] [3]
In 2000, Sauer obtained a Master of Arts in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He then entered Harvard Law School, where he was the articles editor of the Harvard Law Review , and graduated magna cum laude in 2004 with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree. [4]
Legal career
After law school, Sauer was a law clerk to Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 2004 to 2005 and to U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia from 2005 to 2006.
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. [5]
In 2015, Sauer defended a priest falsely accused of sexually abusing children. Sauer helped the priest sue his accusers and the police officers who were involved. [6] Prosecutors had dropped all charges against the priest, and the priest's record has since been fully expunged. [7] [8] Sauer prevailed in the civil lawsuits related to the accusations. [6]
Missouri Solicitor General
In January 2017, then-Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley appointed Sauer Solicitor General of Missouri. [9]
On December 10, 2020, as Solicitor General Counsel of Record, Sauer signed the "Motion of States of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, And Utah To Intervene And Proposed Bill of Complaint In Intervention" in an attempt to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. [10] The motion sought to intervene and join the Texas Bill of Complaint (filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton), to prevent the selection of presidential electors based upon the November election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan. [11]
In January 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey appointed Sauer Deputy Attorney General for Special Litigation. [12] [13] Sauer resigned from his post less than a month later, on January 27, 2023. [14]
In July 2023, Sauer testified before a U.S. House Subcommittee as the Louisiana Department of Justice Special Assistant Attorney General. [15]
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