Texas Lawyer Stone’s Rise Clashes With Staffer’s Suit (1)

May 29, 2025, 4:50 PM UTCUpdated: May 29, 2025, 8:52 PM UTC

Two weeks before he was hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit, former Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone was in a Dallas conference room with some of the state’s brightest legal minds interviewing candidates to become federal judges.

The Tuesday allegations from a staffer who still works for Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) dovetail with a rising legal and political career that gained traction as Stone argued eight cases before the US Supreme Court and counseled his former boss through impeachment proceedings in the Texas Legislature.

It also puts Paxton in the awkward position of picking sides in a lawsuit between ...

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