2026年8月7日 美国东部时间下午4:00 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：德文·科尔
最高法院 唐纳德·特朗普
2025年9月20日，美国最高法院大法官塞缪尔·阿利托出席在意大利罗马举办的美国驻圣座大使馆组织的活动。
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美国最高法院最坚定的保守派大法官之一塞缪尔·阿利托在周五刊发的《华尔街日报》采访中表示，他计划在本届最高法院任期结束前不会退休。
“很明显，我还将任职一届，”阿利托对詹姆斯·塔兰托说道。他表示，要求他辞职的呼声令人不快，因为这“让人想起死亡”。
“就好比，那些秃鹫在上面做什么？它们在盘旋，”阿利托说，“但这就是终身任职制的一部分。”
此番言论暂时平息了长期以来的猜测：这位76岁的大法官是否会辞职，让唐纳德·特朗普总统有机会在参议院由共和党掌控期间，任命一位意识形态相近且更年轻的继任者。
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最高法院新一届任期将于10月初开始，预计于6月底结束。
阿利托由前总统乔治·W·布什任命，2006年加入最高法院，始终坚定支持特朗普和保守派事业。本届任期内，他执笔作出多项重要裁决，支持特朗普政府的多项移民政策，还加入了保守派多数派的阵营，扩大了行政权力，并驳回了 LGBTQ+群体的相关诉求。
今年早些时候，CNN曾报道，阿利托3月在费城联邦主义者协会晚宴上突发不适，因脱水被送往医院治疗。
尽管本届任期及此前多年频繁与特朗普立场一致，阿利托告诉该报，他仍是最高法院的独立成员。
“每个案件我都按自己认为正确的方式投票，”阿利托说，“如果这意味着与特朗普的诉求高度相关，没问题。如果与特朗普的诉求完全无关，也没问题。”
最高法院大法官塞缪尔·阿利托指责索尼娅·索托马约尔法官“背后捅刀”
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最高法院大法官塞缪尔·阿利托指责索尼娅·索托马约尔法官“背后捅刀”
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他接着说道：“我认为，‘好吧，你知道吗？我会在某些案件中这样判，在另一些案件中那样判，这样人们就会说，“嗯，他很客观，因为他有时支持这一方，有时支持那一方”’，这种想法是错误的，绝对错误。”
“我不会这么做，”阿利托说，“我会按自己认为正确的方式裁决所有案件。我会解释自己为何如此判决。人们可以同意，也可以不同意。”
他还告诉塔兰托，虽然自己已经“完全不看有线新闻了”，但他猜测有一些分析人士将大法官视为可以轻易替换为志同道合、更年轻继任者的个体。
“所以没错，二十多岁、三十多岁的人，尤其是那些并非律师的人，我敢肯定他们就是这么看待最高法院的，”他说。
Justice Samuel Alito says he’s not retiring ‘for another term’
2026-08-07 4:00 PM ET / CNN
By Devan Cole
Supreme Court Donald Trump
US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito attends an event organized by the US Embassy to the Holy See, in Rome, Italy, on September 20, 2025.
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Justice Samuel Alito, one of the Supreme Court’s staunchest conservatives, does not plan to retire before the court finishes its upcoming session, he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Friday.
“Obviously I’m here for another term,” Alito told James Taranto. He said that calls for him to step down are unpleasant because they’re “a reminder of mortality.”
“It’s like, what are those vultures doing up there? They are flying around,” Alito said. “But it goes with life tenure.”
His comments put to rest, for now, long-running questions about whether the 76-year-old jurist would step down to give President Donald Trump the opportunity to appoint an ideologically similar, yet younger, replacement while the Senate is controlled by Republicans.
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The court’s upcoming session begins in early October and is expected to wrap up in late June.
Alito, an appointee of former President George W. Bush who joined the court in 2006, is a consistently reliable vote for Trump and conservative causes. This term, he authored major rulings upholding several of the Trump’s administration’s immigration initiatives and was also in the majority as the conservative-majority court expanded executive power and sided against LGBTQ+ interests.
Earlier this year, CNN reported that Alito was taken to a hospital and treated for dehydration in March after becoming ill at a Federalist Society dinner in Philadelphia.
Despite siding frequently with Trump both this term and in previous years, the justice told the newspaper he remains an independent member of the court.
“I vote in every case the way I think the case should be decided,” Alito said. “If that means a high correlation with what Trump wants, fine. If it means zero correlation with what Trump wants, fine as well.”
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito accuses Justice Sonia Sotomayor of blindsiding him
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito accuses Justice Sonia Sotomayor of blindsiding him
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He continued: “I think it’s wrong, it’s absolutely wrong, to say, ‘Well, you know what? I’m going to decide some cases this way and some cases the other way so that people will say, ‘Well, he’s objective, because sometimes he favors this side and other times he favors that side.’”
“I’m not going to do that,” Alito said. “I’m going to decide them all the way that I think they should be decided. I explain why I’ve done it. People can agree, people can disagree.”
He also told Taranto that while he doesn’t “watch cable news at all anymore,” he assumes some analysts look at justices as individuals who are easily interchangeable with a like-minded, albeit younger, replacement.
“So yeah, 20-somethings, 30-somethings, particularly if they’re not lawyers, I’m sure that’s how they see the court,” he said.
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