参议院共和党人正在为确认尽可能多的特朗普总统的司法提名人铺路，目标是在11月3日中期选举之后的几周内完成，因为民主党夺回参议院控制权的可能性正在逼近。
Senate Republicans are laying the groundwork to confirm as many of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees as possible in the weeks after the November 3 midterm elections, as the chance of Democrats flipping the chamber looms.
一位熟悉该过程的人士周四表示，参议院司法委员会主席、共和党参议员查克·格拉斯利计划在参议院的两周11月会议期间举行两次司法提名听证会，时间是在选举之后但新成员宣誓就职之前。
Republican Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley plans to hold two judicial nomination hearings during the Senate's two-week November session, after the election but before new members are sworn in, a person familiar with the process said on Thursday.
这打破了传统惯例——即每两周只举行一次此类听证会。目前有六名提名人正在等待听证会，他们可能有资格参加11月10日的听证会。特朗普也可能宣布额外的提名人，他们可能在11月18日出现在委员会面前。
That's a break from the traditional pattern of holding only one such hearing every two weeks. Six nominees are awaiting a hearing and could be eligible to appear at the November 10 hearing. Trump could also potentially announce additional nominees who could go before the panel on November 18.
连续举行两次听证会将使委员会能够将这些提名人提交全院讨论，并在本届国会最后几周的12月由全体参议员进行表决。
The back-to-back sessions would allow the panel to advance those nominees to the floor and have them voted on by the full Senate in December during the final weeks of the current Congress.
这些提名听证会首次由《Punchbowl新闻》报道，是在该委员会首席民主党成员、伊利诺伊州参议员迪克·杜宾的反对下安排的。他在一份声明中警告共和党同事，这一举动未来可能在民主党总统领导下被用来对付他们。
The nomination hearings, which were first reported by Punchbowl News, were set over the objections of the panel's top Democrat, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, who in a statement warned his Republican colleagues that the move could be used against them in the future under a Democratic president.
杜宾表示：“主席计划在11月以一周为间隔举行两次连续的提名听证会，且未获得少数党同意，这背离了委员会长期以来的惯例，并树立了一个新的先例，这将使民主党在未来的民主党政府中能够更快地处理提名人。”
"The chairman’s plan to hold two back-to-back nomination hearings one week apart without minority consent in November departs from longstanding committee practice and establishes a new precedent that will allow Democrats to process nominees more quickly in a future Democratic administration," Durbin said.
特朗普的低支持率、选民对高物价的担忧以及对伊朗战争的不满，导致许多分析家和民意调查预测民主党将在选举中取得显著进展，这使他们有机会夺回参议院控制权——目前共和党以53比47的多数席位控制着参议院。
Trump's low approval ratings, voter concern over high prices and dissatisfaction with the Iran war have led many analysts and opinion polls to predict significant Democratic gains in the elections, giving them a chance to win control of the Senate, which Republicans now control with a 53-47 majority.
如果民主党赢得参议院控制权，白宫将面临更艰难的道路，以确保特朗普提名的司法提名人获得确认。特朗普在其第一和第二任期内帮助将司法体系的意识形态平衡向右转移，并确保了美国最高法院6比3的保守派多数。
If Democrats win control of the Senate, the White House would face a harder road to secure confirmation of judicial nominees named by Trump, who during his first and second terms helped shift the judiciary's ideological balance to the right and secure a 6-3 conservative majority on the US Supreme Court.
特朗普在其第一任期内确认了234名司法提名人。自2025年1月特朗普重返白宫以来，由共和党领导的参议院已确认了56名法官，其中包括10名有影响力的上诉法院法官。
Trump secured confirmation of 234 judicial nominees in his first term. Since Trump's return to the White House in January 2025, the Republican-led Senate has confirmed 56 judges, including 10 on the influential appeals courts.
在等待参议院司法委员会听证会的六名提名人中，有托德·巴特勒（Todd Butler），他是律所Phelps Dunbar的合伙人，被提名担任位于新奥尔良的第五美国上诉巡回法院法官，该法院被认为是全国最保守的上诉法院。
Among the six nominees awaiting hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee is Todd Butler, a partner at law firm Phelps Dunbar who was nominated to serve on the New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which is considered the most conservative appeals court in the nation.
其中一名提名人是白宫顾问办公室的塞缪尔·阿德克森（Samuel Adkisson），他正被特朗普自己党派的一名成员——田纳西州参议员玛莎·布莱克本（Marsha Blackburn）所阻挠。她未作解释地拒绝归还所谓的蓝色条款（blue slip），而该条款是其在本州考虑联邦法官任命所必需的。随着中期选举临近，特朗普面临任命法官的紧迫时间表。
One nominee, Samuel Adkisson of the White House Counsel's Office, is being held up by a member of Trump's own party, Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. She has declined without explanation to return a so-called blue slip allowing for his consideration for a federal judgeship in her home state. Trump faces tight timeline to appoint judges as midterms loom