The State - News from July 28, 1985

For the second time in a week, the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a vote on President Reagan’s controversial nomination of Alex Kozinski to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) requested the delay so opponents could have more time to lobby against the nomination, an aide said. Kozinski, 34, now chief judge of the U.S. Claims Court and former special counsel to the Merit Systems Protection Board, has been criticized for lack of experience and his performance as the board’s counsel. Simon agreed to allow a vote at the committee’s first meeting in September.