Over the past year, US Solicitor General D. John Sauer has been pushing the boundaries of the law at the Supreme Court with a delivery that is quickfire, confrontational and imbued with MAGA attitude.
President Donald Trump has welcomed it — and the high court has not resisted it.
Sauer, whose hard-hitting positions and uncompromising manner might have turned off the justices of even a decade ago, has been spared the kind of humiliating questions that Chief Justice John Roberts sometimes aimed at the Obama administration solicitor general team.
His hyperbole goes unchecked. And he has largely escaped the admonishment that predecessors as solicitor general received when they changed the government’s position.
Most significantly, Sauer has locked arms with the 6-3 conservative supermajority in its drive to enhance executive power and overhaul voting rights and election law.
