塞缪尔·阿利托于2025年9月20日在意大利罗马的一个活动上。
Samuel Alito at an event in Rome, Italy, on 20 September 2025.
76岁的阿利托在接受哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻罕见采访时发表评论，该采访定于周一播出美国最高法院保守派大法官塞缪尔·阿利托表示，在他这个年纪，“我认为我必须”每年都考虑退休。
Alito, 76, delivers comment in rare interview with CBS News scheduled to air on Monday Samuel Alito the conservative US supreme court justice, has said “I think I have to” contemplate retiring every year at his age.
76岁的阿利托在接受CBS新闻罕见采访时发表了上述言论，该采访定于周一播出，距离他一次广受关注的住院引发关于他可能退休的猜测已过去六个多月。
Alito, 76, delivered that comment in a rare interview with CBS News scheduled to air on Monday, a little more than six months after a widely publicized hospital visit invited speculation about his potential retirement.
在该网络在线发布的预告片段中，阿利托告诉CBS全国记者简·克劳福德，他“考虑过”在6月结束的最高法院任期结束时退休，他说：“我认为我这个年纪的人必须考虑的事情。”
In a preview clip circulated online by the network, Alito told Jan Crawford, CBS national correspondent, that “I thought about” retiring at the end of the supreme court term that ended in June, saying: “It’s something that I think someone at my age has to think about.”
“但是，”阿利托继续说道，“我认为我仍能做出有价值的贡献——这正是我最初成为大法官和法官的原因。基本上就是这样。”
“But,” Alito continued, “I thought I could still make a valuable contribution – which is why I became a justice and a judge in the first place. So that was basically it.”
克劳福德随后说：“所以您可能每年都会考虑这个问题——重新考虑。”阿利托回答：“是的，我认为我必须这么做。”
Crawford then said: “So you’ll be considering this probably every year – rethinking it.”And Alito replied: “Yeah, I think I have to.”
当被问及他是否在共和党控制参议院之际，不当地破坏了共和党确认保守派继任者的意愿时，阿利托回答：“太难预测了……对任何人来说，特别是当你达到一定年龄时，你的情况会怎样。”
Asked whether he was unduly undermining Republicans’ wish to confirm a conservative replacement at a time when their party controlled the US Senate, Alito rejoined: “It’s too hard to predict … how for anybody, and particularly when you reach a certain age, what your situation will be.
“一年后、两年后等等——太难预测政治局势会怎样，任何总统在继任者问题上会怎么做。”
“A year from now, two years from now and so forth – it’s too hard to predict what the political situation will be and what any president might do with respect to a replacement.”
克劳福德与阿利托的对话发生在他在3月20日于费城联邦党人协会晚宴上生病并被送往医院之后。
Crawford’s conversation with Alito came after he became sick at a Federalist Society dinner in Philadelphia on 20 March and was brought to a hospital.
最高法院发言人后来表示，阿利托因脱水接受治疗；按原计划当晚返回弗吉尼亚州的家中；并于3月23日前恢复工作。
A supreme court spokesperson later said that Alito was treated for dehydration; returned to his Virginia home that night, as had been previously planned; and returned to work by 23 March.
尽管如此，阿利托入院的消息还是引发了各界热议：这位于2006年在乔治·W·布什任内获任最高法院大法官的法官，是否会选择退休？
Nonetheless, news of the hospital trip prompted commentary across the political spectrum about whether Alito – who secured his supreme court appointment during George W Bush’s presidency in 2006 – may retire.
讨论的焦点主要集中在：如果阿利托退休，特朗普便有机会再任命一名大法官进入这个由九名成员组成的最高法院，而新任大法官很可能比阿利托更年轻，且同样或更为保守。
Much of it centered on the possibility that his retirement would give Donald Trump the chance to appoint a fourth justice to the nine-member court, in all likelihood someone both younger and equally or more conservative than Alito.
一些进步派团体也在为另一种可能性做准备：现年78岁的保守派大法官克拉伦斯·托马斯也有可能在特朗普任内退休。
Progressive groups have also been girding themselves for the possibility that Alito’s fellow conservative supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, 78, could retire while Trump is in office.
在特朗普的首个总统任期内，他先后任命了尼尔·戈萨奇、布雷特·卡瓦诺以及艾米·康尼·巴雷特三位大法官。如今，加上阿利托、托马斯和首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨，保守派大法官在最高法院已占据绝对多数，这些大法官经常——尽管并非总是——作出有利于特朗普政府的裁决。
Trump appointed three justices during the first of his two presidencies: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. They established a conservative supreme court supermajority alongside Alito, Thomas and John Roberts that has frequently – though not always – ruled in favor of Trump’s administration.
阿利托还向克劳福德谈及，自2022年他撰写多数意见、推翻了近50年前通过的《罗伊诉韦德案》所确立的联邦堕胎权之后，自己便承受了种种压力：从“昔日好友的疏远”到“人身威胁与骚扰”不一而足。
Alito also spoke to Crawford about how he had endured everything from “the loss of old friendships” to “physical threats and harassment” after writing the 2022 majority opinion that struck down the federal right to an abortion created by the Roe v Wade decision nearly 50 years earlier.
他指出，推翻《罗伊诉韦德案》的决定需要他以及与他持相同观点的其他四位大法官——戈萨奇、卡瓦诺、巴雷特和托马斯——具备极大的勇气。据皮尤研究中心的民调显示，近六成美国民众并不认同这一决定。
He asserted that overturning Roe v Wade – a decision disapproved by nearly six in 10 Americans, according to polling by the Pew Research Center – required “courage” from him and the four justices who joined his opinion: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett and Thomas.
阿利托表示，失去老友是“不得不承受的代价”，因为“在处理争议性事务时，做出令部分人不满的裁决本就是这份工作的常态”。
Lost friendships were “something you have to live with,” Alito said, because it is “part of the job that you are going to displease people by making decisions on controversial matters”.
他还说：“无论裁决结果如何，总有一方会因此对你深恶痛绝。”今年9月下旬，由于自身持有多家石油公司股票一事引发外界质疑，阿利托主动回避了一起重要的气候变化相关案件的审理。
“One side or the other is going to really dislike you because of the decision,” said Alito, who in late September recused himself from a major climate change case amid scrutiny over his stock holdings in oil companies.
不过，这位大法官指出，各种威胁与骚扰行为“相当令人不安”，而且“对法院以及公共生活中的其他人都构成了威胁”。
But, the justice said, threats and harassment were “quite disturbing” as well as “a danger for the courts and … others in public life”.
这些言论与今年7月巴雷特及其自由派同僚埃琳娜·卡根在美国众议院所作的罕见证词如出一辙。当时她们力陈加强最高法院安保措施的必要性，称日益增多的威胁已严重影响到大法官们及其家人的生活。一个典型案例是：2022年，有消息称最高法院将推翻“罗诉韦德案”裁决，随后一名企图刺杀卡瓦诺的嫌疑人携带武器和扎带在其住所附近被捕。
Those remarks echoed rare testimony before the US House in July by Barrett and her liberal colleague Elena Kagan as they made the case for upgraded supreme court security, saying a rise in threats had increasingly affected the justices’ personal and family lives. One notable case was the arrest of a would-be assassin near the home of Kavanaugh with weapons and zip ties in 2022 after word leaked that the supreme court would overturn Roe v Wade.
阿利托还表示，他认为特朗普以及其前任和继任者乔·拜登所发表的“极为严厉的批评言论”可能对最高法院造成“极大损害”。他强调，最高法院的职责就是“尽最大努力”解读美国宪法并将其应用于所审理的案件，同时坚决否认最高法院已沦为政治机构的说法。
Alito additionally expressed his belief that “very harsh criticism” by Trump as well as his presidential successor and predecessor Joe Biden could be “quite damaging” to the supreme court. And he insisted that the supreme court’s job was to interpret the US constitution “as best we can” and apply it to the cases it handles, while rejecting the notion that it had evolved into a political institution.
“我们不属于任何政治运动，”阿利托说道。他的回忆录《如此裁定：一位原教旨主义者对宪法、法院及国家的看法》定于周二出版。“我们也不试图推动任何政治议程。”
“We are not part of any political movement,” said Alito, whose memoir – titled So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court and Our Country – was given a Tuesday release date. “And we are not attempting to further any political agenda.”