White House to re-nominate Judge Nye

The White House has signed off on the re-nomination of Idaho Judge David Nye to fill Idaho’s long-vacant federal district judgeship, Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch said Thursday.

“The White House has told me that Judge Nye will be included in the very first group of district judicial nominees that it sends to the Senate,” Crapo said. “While I have yet to be given a definitive timeline for that renomination, I will be active in ushering Judge Nye through the Judiciary Committee once his nomination is received.”

Nye won unanimous support from the Senate Judiciary Committee last June, but his nomination never came up for a vote in the full Senate, as both parties continued wrangling over the Senate GOP leadership’s refusal to consider then-President Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. Though Crapo and Idaho Sen. Jim Risch continued pushing for the Idaho nomination, they had to start over after the election, to get new President Donald Trump to sign on/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.