DEMOCRATS FILIBUSTER PICKERING. From: Liability & Insurance Week | Date: November 2, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 JR Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Republicans failed by six votes Oct. 30 to stop a Democratic filibuster of the nomination of U.S. District Judge Charles Pickering to the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals.

The 54 to 43 vote was immediately seized upon by Republicans in Pickering's home state of Mississippi to energize voters to elect Republican Haley Barbour Nov. 4 as governor. Barbour is in a race too close to call with the state's current Democratic governor, Ronnie Musgrove.

Two Democratic senato...

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