Political Quotes

“I rise to express serious concerns that I have with the nomination of Miranda Du to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. In 2007, the very same court to which Ms. Du has been nominated imposed sanctions on Ms. Du for ``multiplying the proceedings . . . unreasonably and vexatiously.'' (28 U.S.C. section 1927.) The basis of this sanctions order was Ms. Du's prior refusal to dismiss a complaint she had filed on behalf of her client, even after the party her client was suing informed her--and she did not dispute--that the Federal District Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction. In imposing these sanctions on Ms. Du, the district court stated that she ``acted recklessly in failing to consider seriously the basic issue of lack of subject matter jurisdiction when the [opposing party] brought it to [her] attention.'' Ms. Du's errors were egregious, particularly because they involved Federal subject matter jurisdiction--the very basis of the limited jurisdictional reach of the Federal court system for which she has been nominated to be a judge. Ms. Du has not provided a satisfactory explanation for her conduct, but instead has repeatedly attempted to minimize the significance of her errors. When asked at her Judiciary Committee hearing why, in addition to dismissing her complaint against the third-party defendant, she did not have the case against her client dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, Ms.…”