Sarah Maureen Isgur was born on November 9,1982 and is an American attorney, political commentator, and former spokesperson at the United States Department of Justice.
34 Facts About Sarah Isgur
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In 2016, Isgur was a fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics.
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Sarah Isgur was deputy campaign manager for the Carly Fiorina 2016 presidential campaign.
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Sarah Isgur was born to a Jewish family in 1982 and raised in Texas.
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Sarah Isgur's family took birding vacations to Africa and South America.
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In 2004, Sarah Isgur received a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University in history and political science.
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Sarah Isgur began as a math major, but after being placed in a senior level political science seminar due to a scheduling error, changed her major to political science.
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Sarah Isgur received a Juris Doctor in 2008 from Harvard Law School.
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Sarah Isgur attended the London School of Economics and participated in their certificate program.
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Sarah Isgur worked on Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential political action committee and Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign.
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Sarah Isgur clerked for Judge Edith H Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans.
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Sarah Isgur was the political director for Texans for Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz's 2010 campaign for Texas State Attorney General.
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In 2010, Sarah Isgur endorsed the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan despite disagreeing with Kagan on most policy issues.
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Sarah Isgur worked for the Republican National Committee as Deputy Communications Director from 2013 until 2015.
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In January 2015, Sarah Isgur began working for Carly Fiorina's political action committee.
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In 2016, Sarah Isgur Flores was on the national board of the Maverick PAC, a Texas-based political action committee.
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In December 2016, Sarah Isgur joined the Trump administration, serving first as part of Trump attorney general appointee Jeff Sessions's confirmation team.
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Sarah Isgur began working with Sessions prior to his confirmation hearing and was his spokesperson throughout the confirmation process.
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In February 2019, CNN announced that it had hired Sarah Isgur to help oversee the network's coverage of the 2020 United States presidential election.
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Sarah Isgur was first hired as a politics editor, but CNN later changed her to political analyst following pushback.
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Sarah Isgur had previously criticized CNN and other mainstream media organizations regarding their coverage of the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries.
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CNN tried to get out of its contract with Isgur by invoking a "morality clause" in her contract because Justice Brett Kavanaugh had recently officiated her wedding to Scott A Keller.
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Sarah Isgur told CNN that if they did, she would take her case to federal court.
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CNN paid out the compensation Sarah Isgur was owed in her contract.
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Sarah Isgur never joined CNN full time but remained a CNN analyst after beginning a position at The Dispatch.
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In November 2019, Sarah Isgur began working as a full-time staff writer for The Dispatch, co-founded by her "close friend" Toby Stock.
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Sarah Isgur joined The Dispatch after Stock sent out an email to his close friends in early 2019 asking for naming ideas for their new media company.
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Sarah Isgur received the email and met with Stock to discuss her potentially joining The Dispatch.
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Sarah Isgur is the main host of the legal podcast, Advisory Opinions, alongside permanent guest David French.
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Sarah Isgur is famous for starting the "buckets" metaphor among Supreme Court Justices and attorneys.
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Sarah Isgur occasionally appears as a guest on Goldberg's podcast, The Remnant.
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Additionally, Sarah Isgur writes a newsletter for The Dispatch titled The Sweep.
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On January 9,2022, Sarah Isgur published her first piece as a contributing editor at Politico Magazine.
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In 2019 Isgur married Scott A Keller, a former Solicitor General of Texas, in a private ceremony at the Supreme Court.