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Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that the Senate would consider legislative options to stop “judge shopping” after a Texas court ignored his call to implement guidance adopted by the judiciary’s policymaking body aimed at curbing the issue. Northern District of Texas Chief Judge David Godbey, a George W. Bush appointee, informed Schumer in a letter Friday that the judges of his district had met to consider the rule regarding judge shopping — the practice of plaintiffs filing cases in districts where the judge is perceived as friendly — and decided “not to make any ch…