大法官塞缪尔·阿利托表示，在人们猜测他今年可能退休后，他“考虑”在上一个任期结束时从最高法院退休。
Justice Samuel Alito said he “thought about” retiring from the Supreme Court at the end of his last term following speculation about his potential retirement this year.
在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时，首席法律记者简·克劳福德询问阿利托是否考虑退休，因为“共和党人的一些相当强大的压力”，共和党希望在共和党保持对参议院的控制权的同时确认阿利托的继任者。
In an interview with CBS News, chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford asked Alito if he considered retiring in the face of “some pretty intense pressure from Republicans” who wanted to confirm his replacement while the GOP maintained control of the Senate.
“我考虑过，”阿利托说。“嗯，我认为像我这个年纪的人必须考虑每一个学期。”“但我认为我仍然可以做出宝贵的贡献，这就是为什么我首先成为一名法官和法官。所以基本上就是这样，”他继续说道。阿利托补充说，他每年“必须”继续考虑退休问题。
“I thought about it,” Alito said. “Well, it’s something I think that somebody at my age has to think about every term.”“But I thought that I could still make a valuable contribution, which is why I became a justice and a judge in the first place. So that is basically it,” he continued. Alito added that he would “have to” continue to think about retirement every year.
克劳福德还询问，他未来可能的退休是否会“冒着抵消你在法院所做的所有工作的风险”，并与已故大法官露丝·巴德·金斯伯格进行了比较。
Crawford also asked whether his potential future retirement would “risk undoing all the work that you have done here at the court,” drawing a comparison to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“我认为这太难预测了。对于任何人来说，很难预测，尤其是当你达到一定的年龄时，一年后、两年后等等，你的情况会是什么，”阿利托说。“而且很难预测政治局势将会如何，以及任何总统都会对继任者采取什么措施。”76岁的阿利托在乔治·W·W·布什总统上任后担任最高法院法官二十多年。布什提名他担任该职位，他是法院第二年长的法官，仅次于78岁的克拉伦斯·托马斯大法官。
“I think it’s too hard to predict. It’s too hard to predict, for anybody, particularly when you reach a certain age, what your situation will be a year from now, two years from now, and so forth,” Alito said. “And it’s too hard to predict what the political situation will be, and what any president might do with respect to a replacement.”Alito, 76, has been on the Supreme Court for a little over two decades after President George W. Bush nominated him for the role, and is the court’s second-oldest justice, behind Justice Clarence Thomas, 78.
他与大法官约翰·罗伯茨、克拉伦斯·托马斯、艾米·科尼·巴雷特、布雷特·卡瓦诺和尼尔·戈萨奇一起属于法院保守派阵营。
He is part of the court’s conservative bloc, alongside Justices John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.
八月份，他放弃了退休的任何想法，并告诉《华尔街日报》，“显然我会在这里连任。”阿利托发表上述言论之前，NPR错误地报道了他在法院任期的最终意见日宣布退休的消息。该报道被撤回，NPR记者尼娜·托滕伯格在一封信中向阿利托道歉。
He shut down any notion of his retirement in August, telling the Wall Street Journal, “obviously I’m here for another term.”Alito’s remarks followed NPR erroneously reporting that he had announced his retirement on the final opinion day of the court’s term. The report was retracted and NPR journalist Nina Totenberg apologized to Alito in a letter.