Pickering Nomination Clears Senate Panel
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U.S. District Judge Charles W. Pickering Sr. won a two-year battle to get his languishing promotion to the U.S. Court of Appeals out of committee and on to the full, GOP-controlled Senate. But Democrats who oppose the conservative Mississippi jurist say his nomination will go no further.
Threatening a filibuster, a tactic that has stalled several of President Bush’s other judicial nominees, Democrats predicted Pickering’s nomination will fail, despite approval -- on a 10-9 party line vote -- in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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