Senators quiz federal bench nominees about newspaper raid, tobacco settlement

Read Article U.S. Senators on Wednesday probed and prodded three nominees for the federal bench in Kansas, asking them about a range of topics including their judicial philosophy, the local police raid of the Marion County Record and the 1998 master tobacco settlement. Kansas Bureau of Investigation Director Tony Mattivi, Solicitor General Anthony Powell and Great Bend lawyer Jeffrey Kuhlman appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for their confirmation hearing after they were nominated b