[6] In a letter to the Judiciary Committee, the American Bar Association (ABA) stated that it had no objection to Goodwin's "judicial temperament, intellectual capacity, writing and analytical abilities, knowledge of the law, or breadth of professional experience".

Testifying before the committee, Goodwin stated that he often worked remotely from a home office when he did not have court hearings.

[7] On January 3, 2018, his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate.

[8] On January 5, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intent to renominate Goodwin to a federal judgeship.

a state or local government can address grade-level railroad crossing issues in a manner that does not run afoul of federal law .

But a statute that tells railroad companies how long they may stop their trains — for whatever ends — intrudes on the territory reserved to the ICCTA.