WASHINGTON — A mere decade ago, as an LSU law student, J. Benjamin Aguiñaga paced the parking lots around Tiger Stadium, going over legal arguments in his head.
“At some point between those evening walks and my own moot court adventures, I developed a love for brief writing and oral advocacy. So, I set out to try to build a strong resume for an appellate career,” Aguiñaga told The Texas Lawbook, a law firm publication in 2022.
He graduated from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at LSU in 2015. He quickly assembled a resume of clerkships with nationally prominent federal judges, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Then, in January 2024, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill named him the state’s solicitor general…