阿尔安娜·德金·里彻 华盛顿——司法部周三对明尼苏达州的联邦法官提出投诉，原因是他们就特朗普政府移民执法激增一事向媒体发表了言论。
ALANNA DURKIN RICHER WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice filed a complaint Wednesday against federal judges in Minnesota over their remarks to the media related to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge .
这起投诉升级了司法部与联邦司法机构之间的斗争。联邦司法机构已叫停政府的优先事项，驳回高调起诉，并在一些案件中指责政府律师未能遵守法院命令。
The complaint escalates the department’s battle with the federal judiciary, which has halted administration priorities, dismissed high-profile prosecutions and accused government lawyers in some cases of failing to comply with court orders.
司法部长托德·布兰奇告诉记者，司法部要求这些法官回避所有涉及国土安全部的刑事或民事案件，理由是他所称的这些法官近期向《纽约时报》发表言论时“表现出的明显偏见”。
The department is demanding that the judges recuse themselves from all criminal or civil cases involving the Department of Homeland Security, Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters, because of what he described as “obvious bias they have shown” in recent remarks to The New York Times.
争议焦点是9月的一篇文章，其中明尼苏达州的七名联邦法官——由民主党和共和党总统提名——公开谈论了他们在去年冬天移民打击行动期间处理大量案件的经验，那次行动导致数千人被捕。
At issue is a September article in which seven federal judges in Minnesota — nominated by Democrats and Republican presidents — spoke on the record about their experience dealing with a flood of cases during last winter’s immigration crackdown that led to thousands of arrests.
本案的核心人物是帕特里克·希尔茨（Patrick Schiltz）法官。他在今年1月指责美国政府未能遵守近100项法院命令。他在一份裁决中指出，隶属于美国国土安全部（DHS）的美国移民与海关执法局（U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement）“并非独立于法律的机构”。
The judge at the center of the story, Patrick Schiltz, accused the government in January of failing to comply with nearly 100 court orders. He said in a ruling that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a part of DHS, “is not a law unto itself.”
希尔茨由共和党总统乔治·W·布什提名，并曾担任最高法院大法官安东宁·斯卡利亚（Antonin Scalia）的法律助理。他对媒体表示，去年冬天明尼苏达州联邦法院发生的事件“对法治构成了严重威胁”。
Schiltz, who was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush and served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, told the newspaper that what happened in Minnesota’s federal court last winter “created a grave threat to the rule of law.”
在周三的一份声明中，希尔茨强调自己“在与《纽约时报》交谈时完全遵守了适用于联邦法官的职业道德规范”。
In a statement Wednesday, Schiltz said he was “acting well within the ethical rules that apply to federal judges in speaking to The New York Times.”
“事实上，今年2月，美国联邦法官行为准则委员会曾发布了一份咨询意见，明确指出联邦法官可以就‘法治’和‘司法独立’等核心司法议题发表意见或撰写文章，”希尔茨说，“而我所做的正是这些。”该投诉已提交给负责监管明尼苏达州联邦法官的第八巡回上诉法院（8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals）的首席法官。
“Indeed, in February of this year, the Committee on Codes of Conduct issued an advisory opinion to emphasize that federal judges” may speak or write “on core judiciary matters such as advocacy for the rule of law and judicial independence,’” Schiltz said. “That is exactly what I did.”The complaint was filed with the chief judge of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which oversees federal judges in Minnesota.
共和党政府一直抨击那些被他们称为“激进主义法官”的人士，声称这些法官试图阻碍特朗普的政策实施。然而，一些最具批评性、对政府最不利的法院裁决恰恰出自特朗普及其他共和党总统提名的法官之手。
The Republican administration has railed against what it describes as “activist judges” who officials say are intent on thwarting Trump’s agenda. Yet some of the most critical and unfavorable court rulings have come from judges nominated by Trump and other Republican presidents.