Dean John Sauer was confirmed as the Trump administration’s top lawyer at the US Supreme Court just as the justices face multiple appeals related to White House policies testing the bounds of presidential power.
The Republican-led Senate on Thursday confirmed Sauer as US solicitor general, 52-45, in a party line vote.
Sauer is a former federal prosecutor and Missouri solicitor general who successfully argued at the Supreme Court last year on behalf of Donald Trump in his bid for immunity from criminal prosecution related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.
The conservative-led court wound up giving ...