Two Kansas nominees for U.S. District Court answer questions about ties to Marion newspaper raid

Two Kansas nominees for U.S. District Court answer questions about ties to Marion newspaper raid

Kansas Bureau of Investigation director Tony Mattivi is questioned Wednesday by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee regarding his nomination for the U.S. District Court in Kansas. (Kansas Reflector screen capture of U.S. Senate video)TOPEKA — Two of three Kansans nominated to the U.S. District Court were questioned Wednesday during a joint U.S. Senate confirmation hearing about their role in the August 2023 raid by law enforcement officers of th…

Senators quiz federal bench nominees about newspaper raid, tobacco settlement

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 confirmati…