{"id":120815,"date":"2025-05-29T10:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T18:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/29\/a-solicitor-general-and-an-asteroid-walk-into-a-sexual-harassment-complaint-stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-one\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T10:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T18:03:34","slug":"a-solicitor-general-and-an-asteroid-walk-into-a-sexual-harassment-complaint-stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/29\/a-solicitor-general-and-an-asteroid-walk-into-a-sexual-harassment-complaint-stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":"A Solicitor General And An Asteroid Walk Into A Sexual Harassment Complaint\u2026 Stop Me If You\u2019ve Heard This One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Somehow, the partner explaining, \u201cIn this firm, there are no rules\u2026 You can say whatever slurs you want\u201d manages to not<\/em> be the wildest allegation in this complaint. Which is impressive, given that most lawsuits would consider that the final boss of batshit quotes.<\/p>\n

Former Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone rose from Chief Counsel to Ted Cruz to the SG\u2019s office. Along with Chief of the General Litigation Division Christopher Hilton, Stone stepped back from his official role as SG to start Stone Hilton PLLC for the purpose of defending Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the impeachment trial brought because even Texas Republicans had enough of Paxton\u2019s nonsense. After successfully staving off Paxton\u2019s much deserved impeachment<\/a>, Stone returned to his perch as the top appellate lawyer for the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n

But not for long.<\/p>\n

After returning to the government, former staffer Jordan Eskew, the plaintiff in the instant lawsuit, opened up to First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster about everything that transpired under the Stone Hilton roof. And according to the allegations, Stone didn\u2019t just flout employment law, he made it something of a competitive sport. As one might imagine of a slur-friendly office, Stone Hilton allegedly operated under a management philosophy best summed up as \u201cHR violations, but make it baroque.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yelling from the railings like a summer stock Shakespeare villain, discussing \u201cpeople putting sexual organs in [a female employee\u2019s] mouth,\u201d and \u201cgetting screamed at and berated to \u2018cry,’\u201d are all vignettes of a day in the life of the firm recounted in the complaint. Eskew also alleges that she was shorted on pay\u2026 on top of everything else.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all before we get to the asteroid. There\u2019s a celestial object subplot!<\/p>\n

Once Eskew\u2019s allegations (and those of another employee, Amy Hilton \u2014 unrelated to Christopher Hilton \u2014 not in the lawsuit) reached Webster, well\u2026<\/p>\n

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Webster confronted Judd Stone and Christopher Hilton about Amy Hilton\u2019s and Plaintiff\u2019s allegations, and Stone promptly admitted that all of the allegations were true and that the actions described by Amy Hilton and Plaintiff did indeed happen, and Christopher Hilton did not contest the allegations made by Amy Hilton and Plaintiff.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The first rule of employment discrimination Fight Club is you do not admit to employment discrimination Fight Club. It\u2019s also the second rule, which the complaint says he breached when he admitted the charges again when probed by Judge Grant Dorfman. But, Stone argued, \u201cit was \u201cokay\u201d because it was during their time at a private law firm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since this is not at all how the law works, Judge Dorfman told them if they didn\u2019t resign they would be fired. So they resigned.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019ve still not gotten to the asteroid!<\/p>\n

Webster wrote an email summarizing the events that brought the office to this point. <\/p>\n

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The first female employee came to me on October 13, 2023. I asked Ralph Molina to join the conversation with me, so that I had a witness. Through many tears, she told me stories of Judd discussing sexual things with her, specifically regarding a disturbing sexual fantasy Judd had about me being violently anally raped by a cylindrical asteroid in front
of my wife and children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I think once it makes it to Earth he technically wanted Webster \u201canally raped by a cylindrical meteorite<\/em> in front of my wife and children.\u201d Common mistake, but if we don\u2019t strive for precision what are we even doing here?<\/p>\n

You might think this is the most reprehensible thing he could\u2019ve possibly said, but then again, he argued Whole Women\u2019s Health<\/em>. In all seriousness though, if you haven\u2019t figured out that the venn diagram of \u201cdudes with violent rape fantasies\u201d and \u201cguys who believe in authorizing vigilantes to go after abortion providers\u201d is a nearly perfect circle, you\u2019re not paying attention.<\/p>\n

As bad as this is, everything\u2019s bigger in Texas including the scandals.<\/p>\n

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According to this employee, Judd publicly described this in excruciating detail over a long period of time, to a group of OAG employees, Office of the Governor employee(s), federal judges, and other non-government employees at a table.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

GUYS! He told the asteroid rape story to federal judges?!? Please tell us which ones. Stone clerked for Edith Jones, last seen having an unhinged meltdown that criticizing judge selection rules was a functional death threat<\/a>. Would love to know if she heard this story and if so, where casually discussing \u201csexually assaulting someone with a fictional space rock\u201d fits in her ranking of inappropriate violent rhetoric. Probably still below \u201csuggesting that cases be assigned randomly throughout a district.\u201d<\/p>\n

So we have a firm that allegedly operated on \u201cslurs are free speech,\u201d sexual harassment as a punchline, and intergalactic assault fantasy stories with federal judges. That\u2019s the Texas Trifecta right there.<\/p>\n

(Complaint on the next page\u2026)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post A Solicitor General And An Asteroid Walk Into A Sexual Harassment Complaint\u2026 Stop Me If You\u2019ve Heard This One<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Somehow, the partner explaining, \u201cIn this firm, there are no rules\u2026 You can say whatever slurs you want\u201d manages to not<\/em> be the wildest allegation in this complaint. Which is impressive, given that most lawsuits would consider that the final boss of batshit quotes.<\/p>\n

Former Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone rose from Chief Counsel to Ted Cruz to the SG\u2019s office. Along with Chief of the General Litigation Division Christopher Hilton, Stone stepped back from his official role as SG to start Stone Hilton PLLC for the purpose of defending Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the impeachment trial brought because even Texas Republicans had enough of Paxton\u2019s nonsense. After successfully staving off Paxton\u2019s much deserved impeachment<\/a>, Stone returned to his perch as the top appellate lawyer for the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n

But not for long.<\/p>\n

After returning to the government, former staffer Jordan Eskew, the plaintiff in the instant lawsuit, opened up to First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster about everything that transpired under the Stone Hilton roof. And according to the allegations, Stone didn\u2019t just flout employment law, he made it something of a competitive sport. As one might imagine of a slur-friendly office, Stone Hilton allegedly operated under a management philosophy best summed up as \u201cHR violations, but make it baroque.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yelling from the railings like a summer stock Shakespeare villain, discussing \u201cpeople putting sexual organs in [a female employee\u2019s] mouth,\u201d and \u201cgetting screamed at and berated to \u2018cry,’\u201d are all vignettes of a day in the life of the firm recounted in the complaint. Eskew also alleges that she was shorted on pay\u2026 on top of everything else.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all before we get to the asteroid. There\u2019s a celestial object subplot!<\/p>\n

Once Eskew\u2019s allegations (and those of another employee, Amy Hilton \u2014 unrelated to Christopher Hilton \u2014 not in the lawsuit) reached Webster, well\u2026<\/p>\n

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Webster confronted Judd Stone and Christopher Hilton about Amy Hilton\u2019s and Plaintiff\u2019s allegations, and Stone promptly admitted that all of the allegations were true and that the actions described by Amy Hilton and Plaintiff did indeed happen, and Christopher Hilton did not contest the allegations made by Amy Hilton and Plaintiff.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The first rule of employment discrimination Fight Club is you do not admit to employment discrimination Fight Club. It\u2019s also the second rule, which the complaint says he breached when he admitted the charges again when probed by Judge Grant Dorfman. But, Stone argued, \u201cit was \u201cokay\u201d because it was during their time at a private law firm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since this is not at all how the law works, Judge Dorfman told them if they didn\u2019t resign they would be fired. So they resigned.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019ve still not gotten to the asteroid!<\/p>\n

Webster wrote an email summarizing the events that brought the office to this point. <\/p>\n

\n

The first female employee came to me on October 13, 2023. I asked Ralph Molina to join the conversation with me, so that I had a witness. Through many tears, she told me stories of Judd discussing sexual things with her, specifically regarding a disturbing sexual fantasy Judd had about me being violently anally raped by a cylindrical asteroid in front
of my wife and children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I think once it makes it to Earth he technically wanted Webster \u201canally raped by a cylindrical meteorite<\/em> in front of my wife and children.\u201d Common mistake, but if we don\u2019t strive for precision what are we even doing here?<\/p>\n

You might think this is the most reprehensible thing he could\u2019ve possibly said, but then again, he argued Whole Women\u2019s Health<\/em>. In all seriousness though, if you haven\u2019t figured out that the venn diagram of \u201cdudes with violent rape fantasies\u201d and \u201cguys who believe in authorizing vigilantes to go after abortion providers\u201d is a nearly perfect circle, you\u2019re not paying attention.<\/p>\n

As bad as this is, everything\u2019s bigger in Texas including the scandals.<\/p>\n

\n

According to this employee, Judd publicly described this in excruciating detail over a long period of time, to a group of OAG employees, Office of the Governor employee(s), federal judges, and other non-government employees at a table.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

GUYS! He told the asteroid rape story to federal judges?!? Please tell us which ones. Stone clerked for Edith Jones, last seen having an unhinged meltdown that criticizing judge selection rules was a functional death threat<\/a>. Would love to know if she heard this story and if so, where casually discussing \u201csexually assaulting someone with a fictional space rock\u201d fits in her ranking of inappropriate violent rhetoric. Probably still below \u201csuggesting that cases be assigned randomly throughout a district.\u201d<\/p>\n

So we have a firm that allegedly operated on \u201cslurs are free speech,\u201d sexual harassment as a punchline, and intergalactic assault fantasy stories with federal judges. That\u2019s the Texas Trifecta right there.<\/p>\n

(Complaint on the next page\u2026)<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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