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Dallas judge's nomination for federal bench stalls
Associated Press ^ | May 2, 2002 | A/P Staff

Posted on 05/02/2002 3:23:15 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP


Dallas judge's nomination for federal bench stalls

05/02/2002

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The nomination of Dallas state district Judge David C. Godbey stalled Thursday in a Senate committee because of a private matter that senators said they had to discuss.

Godbey, 160th District Court judge, had been recommended in August by Sens. Phil Gramm and Kay Bailey Hutchison and nominated by President Bush in January to be a U.S. district judge for the Northern District of Texas. His nomination must be approved by a Senate committee and the Senate.

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David C. Godbey

Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate committee that approves judicial nominations, said in a hearing Thursday morning that Godbey's nomination would be held over.

Leahy said he and Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, needed to talk to their respective party members about a matter he did not want to talk about in open session.

Leahy said Godbey's nomination would not return to the committee's agenda until the senators had a chance to talk to their colleagues.

Donna Boughton, Godbey's court administrator, was unaware of the action in the Senate. She said Godbey was working on a court motion in a Bridgestone/Firestone case and was not immediately available.

Press secretaries for Gramm and Hutchison said they did not know what issue was holding up Godbey's nomination.

Godbey has been 160th District Court Judge in Dallas County since 1995. In 1998, he was chosen to be the administrative presiding judge for the civil district courts in Dallas County.

He is originally from Conroe and earned electrical and mathematics degrees from Southern Methodist University. He worked as an electrical engineer for Texas Instruments for a year before attending Harvard Law School where he earned his law degree.

Godbey was an attorney with Hughes & Luce, focusing on commercial litigation, with an emphasis on technology-related litigation, public law and appeals.

Gov. Rick Perry appointed Godbey to sit as a temporary Supreme Court justice to hear a case involving Texas Utilities.


Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/050202dnnatjudge.6bb5e.html


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: dallas; judicialappointment; obstructionism; patrickleahy; texas
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To: princess leah
At least he's not an Aggie....... ;-)

mgstarr
Baylor '86

21 posted on 05/02/2002 6:13:50 PM PDT by mgstarr
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To: mgstarr
Just a matter of time before we get a Fighting Farmer as one of the Supremes; it'll be fun watching him (or her) put some checks and ballances on the Executive and Legislative Branch :-)

Take care mgstarr!

Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88; Law Hall Ramp 9 Mule

22 posted on 05/02/2002 6:27:43 PM PDT by Trajan88
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To: Trajan88
And the Hypocrats will continue to obstruct the GOP's and President's not-liberal-enough nominees until conservatives and Republicans raise holy Heck with the press and their representatives.

In other words, they'll continue to obstruct unendingly.

23 posted on 05/03/2002 5:38:32 AM PDT by Coop
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To: MeeknMing
" His nomination must be approved by a Senate committee ..."

Bullsh*t!

That's NOT what the Constitution says!

24 posted on 05/04/2002 8:04:11 PM PDT by Redbob
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