An attorney in Washington state says he resigned a position working for the longtime law partner of former Judge Paul Pressler after the co-founder of a 20th-century movement to shift the Southern Baptist Convention to the right solicited him for sexual activity.
Brooks Schott, 27, an attorney in Spokane, Wash., says in an affidavit filed April 11 in federal court that he met Houston attorney Jared Woodfill while still in law school through a religious connection set up through his father.
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