San Diego
A U.S. Senate confirmation hearing for Bernard Siegan, the University of San Diego law professor nominated by President Reagan to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, has been postponed indefinitely.
The hearing had been scheduled for Tuesday, but Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee chose to put off consideration of Siegan’s nomination and instead to focus on the even more controversial nomination of appellate Judge Robert H. Bork to fill an open seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Siegan, a libertarian scholar whose views on civil and economic rights have drawn heavy fire from liberals, was nominated for the appellate judgeship Feb. 2, but his court candidacy has been in limbo ever since.
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