Dallas judge's nomination for federal bench stalls
Posted on 05/02/2002 3:23:15 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
Dallas judge's nomination for federal bench stalls
05/02/2002
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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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.
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.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Translation?: I gotta make a call to tommy "The Obstructionist" da$$hole first..........
DA$$HOLE
Says it all like JE$$E
Folks, from what I can tell, this nominee for the Federal bench is in no one's pocket - it is obvious the Democraps don't like this.
p.s. Patrick Lehey (D-VT) is a turd. You know, the stuff that comes from all those cows that graze up there.
Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88; Law Hall Ramp 9 Mule
Trajan88
Hmm... and engineer turned lawyer and judge.
I bet the democrats don't want him to be a judge because they know he can think logically, and can read specs/data sheets. And we all know that the US Constitution and Bill of Rights is just one heck of an old data sheet. ;)
You apparently never read the tax code.
what have looks or feelings have to do with the matter?
Now I know what it is, its the beard. The Al Gore look. Definitely, trying to fly under the radar.
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