10月19日 - 美国最高法院周一拒绝受理被指控为2001年9月11日袭击事件主谋的哈立德·谢赫·穆罕默德的申请，他试图恢复一项2024年协议，该协议本可让他以认罪换取免于死刑 — — 但该协议已被前国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀废除。
Oct 19 - The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, to revive a 2024 agreement that would have spared him the death penalty in exchange for a guilty plea — a deal scrapped by former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
大法官们驳回了穆罕默德及其两名共同被告的上诉，他们也曾签署认罪协议，而下级法院的裁决维持了奥斯汀废除这些协议的决定。哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院驳回了一项论点，即奥斯汀在前总统乔·拜登手下任职时行动过迟。
The justices turned away appeals by Mohammed and two co-defendants who had also signed plea agreements of a lower court's ruling that upheld Austin's decision to void the deals. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected an argument that Austin, who served under former President Joe Biden, had acted too late.
最高法院的这一举动标志着对古巴关塔那摩湾被拘留者的军事诉讼进程中的最新里程碑，该案件已陷入二十年的法律僵局。
The Supreme Court's action marks the latest milestone in a military prosecution of the detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that has been beset by two decades of legal gridlock.
八月，一名美国空军法官将穆罕默德及其共同被告的审判定于2028年6月进行。
In August, a US Air Force judge set the trial for Mohammed and his co-defendants for June 2028.
穆罕默德仍然是关塔那摩拘留设施中最知名的囚犯，该设施由时任美国总统乔治·W·布什于2002年成立，旨在关押9·11袭击事件后的外国恐怖主义嫌疑人，该袭击事件造成近3000人死亡。穆罕默德被指控策划了劫持客机撞向纽约世界贸易中心和弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿五角大楼的阴谋。
Mohammed remains the most well-known inmate at the Guantanamo detention facility, which was set up in 2002 by then-US President George W. Bush to house foreign terrorism suspects following the 9/11 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. Mohammed is accused of orchestrating the plot to fly hijacked passenger jetliners into the World Trade Center in New York City and into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
穆罕默德及其共同被告穆斯塔法·阿尔·霍萨维和瓦利德·本·阿塔什的认罪协议曾由负责监督五角大楼关塔那摩战争法庭的美国官员提出并获得接受，这引起了共和党议员的批评。奥斯汀在两天后撤销了这些协议。
The plea agreements for Mohammed and co-defendants Mustafa al Hawsawi and Walid bin 'Atash had been offered and accepted by the US official overseeing the Pentagon's Guantanamo war court, prompting criticism by Republican lawmakers. Austin revoked the deals two days later.
一名军事法官裁定，奥斯汀无权废除这些认罪协议，该裁决随后在美国军事委员会审查法院（US Court of Military Commission Review）于十二月得到维持。随后，该法官安排了尽快进行的认罪听证会。
A military judge ruled that Austin lacked authority to invalidate the plea deals in a decision that was upheld in December by the US Court of Military Commission Review. The judge then scheduled prompt plea hearings. The D.C.
华盛顿巡回法院暂停了相关程序，并且在2025年7月，该法院的一个合议庭以2比1的投票结果支持撤销认罪协议的决定，称奥斯汀“毫无争议地拥有撤回协议的法律权力”。
Circuit paused those proceedings, and in July 2025, a panel of that court — in a 2-1 vote — backed the decision to scrap the plea deals, saying that Austin "indisputably had legal authority to withdraw from the agreements."
穆罕默德和阿尔·哈瓦西的辩护律师，包括美国公民自由联盟的律师，敦促最高法院受理此案。他们表示，奥斯汀的行为违反了具有约束力的军法，并且“延长了在过去二十五年中对9·11案件实现最终裁决的最佳时机”。 Reuters
Defense attorneys for Mohammed and al Hawsawi, including lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union, urged the Supreme Court to hear the case. They said Austin's action violated controlling military law and "prolonged the best chance for finality in the September 11 case in a quarter century." REUTERS