WASHINGTON – Two nominees for the Louisiana federal bench, including state Supreme Court Justice Will Crain, testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary committee on why they should be confirmed to lifetime appointments.

In addition to Crain, who was nominated to sit in the Eastern District headquartered in New Orleans, former acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, Alexander C. Van Hook, was questioned by senators to become a federal judge in the district that sits in Lafayette, Shreveport, Monroe and Alexandria.

U.S. Sen. John N. Kennedy, R-Madisonville, chaired much of the hearing for Crain and Van Hook. He and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, recommend candidates for President Donald Trump to nominate.

“I look at judgment,” Kennedy said. “I try to pick lawy

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