Today you heard from legal heavyweights at the top of their game – here’s a little more on the two men representing Donald Trump and the US government in this hearing.
Dean John Sauer is a St Louis-based trial lawyer who
joined Trump’s legal team late last year.
In 2020 he was part
of the last-ditch effort to reverse Trump’s loss by filing a motion asking the
Supreme Court to invalidate votes in key swing states.
After the election, he used his role to file multiple
lawsuits attempting to block Biden from Democratic agenda.
After leaving office last January, Sauer returned to his
private firm – the James Otis Law Group – which is named after a US
Revolutionary War-era lawyer famous for challenging British colonial abuses.
Michael Dreeben, who joined the prosecution in
January, has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court – many of them
on behalf of the federal government.
He is considered one of the most experienced experts on the
Supreme Court, and a master of US criminal law.
Dreeben spent over three decades working in the US solicitor
general’s office before moving into private practice in 2020.
He also previously worked on special counsel Robert
Mueller’s probe of links between Trump’s campaign and Russia.