Trump picks Idaho Judge David Nye for federal bench

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President Donald Trump has nominated Idaho 6th District Judge David Nye to a seat on the federal bench.

Trump announced Nye’s nomination for Idaho’s U.S. District Court on Monday. The nomination now goes to the U.S. Senate for confirmation.

The Trump administration, in consultation with both Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, re-nominated Nye as one of the first district judicial nominations sent to the Senate by the White House.

The 58-year-old was previously nominated to the federal court by President Barack Obama in 2016 and approved unanimously by the Senate Judiciary Committee, but Congress concluded without confirming the nomination.  Crapo is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee overseeing the nomination.

Nye, of Pocatello, was appointed to the state judgeship by Governor Butch Otter in 2007.  Previously he worked as an attorney specializing in medical malpractice and insurance law, and he earned his law degree at Brigham Young University.

If confirmed, Nye will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge. Lodge announced his plans to retire in September 2014, but has kept working as a senior judge while the search for his successor was underway.  (AP, Idaho Statesman)

 

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