Feinstein defends Obama court pick against GOP

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Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle

(04-15) 15:30 PDT WASHINGTON -- On the eve of Goodwin Liu's confirmation hearing as a federal appeals court judge, Sen. Dianne Feinstein tore into the UC Berkeley law professor's Republican critics Thursday, saying they were smearing him and applying standards they never used for their own party's nominees.

"It's attack, attack, attack. It's ruin somebody before they've had an opportunity" for self-defense, Feinstein, D-Calif., said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

The committee's top Republican, meanwhile, suggested Liu might be guilty of criminal contempt for failing to list some of his speeches and events he attended in the initial set of documents he disclosed to senators.

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[Hekate]

1. Go get'em, DiFi! Those Repubs are contemptible.

Some days she makes me proud she's my Senator, and this is one of them.

Hekate

[FrenchieCat]

2. finally!

Thank Gawd!

[Cha]

3. As in...finally

feinstein does something for our side?

[rpannier]

5. She supported the Public Option

[Cha]

6. That's good..thank you. nt

[rpannier]

4. Good for Diane

She carries a lot of juice and this helps

[tishaLA]

7. Thank you DiFi. I take back most of the mean things I've said about you

but not all of them.