1.   Cal has postponed the hearing that should never happen.

2.   Richard Shelby, R-Ala., has twice postponed hearings on the nomination and expressed strong reservations about it.

3.   A court hearing was postponed Thursday and rescheduled for Tuesday.

4.   A hearing was postponed Monday on whether the wife of Lance A. Ito, the judge in the O.J. Simpson trial, should be called as a witness.

5.   A Judiciary Committee panel postponed a hearing this week on that topic, probably until early next month.

6.   After the truce was announced, McCain postponed the hearing until July.

7.   But he threatened to postpone the hearing unless the administration decided this week how it wanted to pay for the pact, which was concluded last December.

8.   But Judith Gould, administrative law judge, declined to rule on the matter, postponing the hearing until Friday.

9.   But Shelby keeps postponing hearings and raising new issues, leaving the impression that he would rather undermine the nomination than vote on it.

10.   But that hearing was postponed indefinitely by the Board of Immigration Appeal, a quasi-judicial body within the Justice Department.