Judd Stone II, the Texas solicitor general, makes his Supreme Court debut.

Politics|Judd Stone II, the Texas solicitor general, makes his Supreme Court debut.

Judd Stone II, a erstwhile clerk to the blimpish Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, was named solicitor wide of Texas earlier this year. On Monday, helium volition instrumentality connected his astir high-profile situation to date: arguing earlier the Supreme Court connected behalf of the authorities successful 2 challenges to its caller anti-abortion law.

Mr. Stone, who took his station successful February, joined the authorities solicitor general’s bureau successful 2020. He was appointed by Ken Paxton, the authorities lawyer general. His predecessor, Kyle Hawkins, called Mr. Stone’s appellate advocacy skills “unmatched.” He oversees an bureau of attorneys who supervise and o.k. each appellate litigation for the state.

Before joining the bureau of the solicitor general, Mr. Stone was main counsel for Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, himself a erstwhile Texas solicitor general.

Mr. Stone practiced instrumentality successful Washington, D.C., astatine the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group for Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius, and the Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel, and Frederick instrumentality firm. He was besides an Olin-Searle-Smith chap astatine Harvard Law School.

Before his vocation successful backstage practice, Mr. Stone clerked for Mr. Scalia, for Judge Edith Jones connected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and for Justice Daniel Winfree connected the Alaska Supreme Court. He graduated from the University of Texas astatine Dallas and from Northwestern University Law School.

Mr. Hawkins, the erstwhile solicitor general, announced his resignation successful January. Notably, helium had declined to articulation Mr. Paxton’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 statesmanlike election.