根据周四公开的美国参议院记录，总统唐纳德·特朗普正准备提名一名得克萨斯州最高法院的共和党成员出任享有终身任期的联邦法官，此人在周二的选举中被选民投票罢免。
President Donald Trump is moving to nominate a Republican member of the Texas Supreme Court who voters ousted from office in Tuesday's election to become a life-tenured federal judge, according to US Senate records made public on Thursday.
特朗普尚未宣布这一提名。但由共和党领导的参议院司法委员会已经收到相关文书，开始审议即将卸任的得克萨斯州最高法院法官詹姆斯·沙利文出任奥斯汀联邦法官的事宜。
Trump has not announced any such nomination. But the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee has received paperwork to begin considering outgoing Texas Supreme Court Justice James Sullivan to serve as a federal judge in Austin.
他被提名担任美国得克萨斯州西区联邦地区法院法官一职，将在1月份民主党掌控参议院之前的最后几周“残余期”国会会议期间由参议院进行审议。白宫和沙利文没有立即回应置评请求。
His nomination to a seat on the US District Court for the Western District of Texas will be taken up by the Senate during the lame-duck session in the final weeks before Democrats take control of the chamber in January. The White House and Sullivan did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
在将参议院控制权移交给民主党之前，共和党人正力求确认近二十名待决的司法提名人选，为特朗普第二任期迄今已确认的56名联邦法官再添人选。
Republicans are pushing to confirm nearly two dozen pending judicial nominees and add to 56 confirmed so far during Trump's second term before they hand over control of the Senate to Democrats.
特朗普在其第一任期内进行了234项司法任命，其中包括三名最高法院大法官，这帮助联邦司法机构的意识形态平衡向右转型。
Trump made 234 judicial appointments in his first term, including three Supreme Court justices, helping shift the federal judiciary's ideological balance to the right.
尽管遭到民主党人的反对，作为该委员会即将卸任的主席、来自艾奥瓦州的共和党联邦参议员查克·格拉斯利仍安排从11月10日开始连续数周举行司法提名听证会，打破了该委员会通常每两周举行一次的惯例。
Over Democrats' objections, Republican US Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the committee's outgoing chair, scheduled judicial nomination hearings in consecutive weeks starting November 10, departing from the panel's typical practice of holding them every other week.
45岁的沙利文于2025年1月被共和党籍州长格雷格·阿博特任命为得克萨斯州最高法院法官，以填补该州最高法院的空缺。阿博特在周二的连任竞选中败给了民主党人吉娜·伊诺霍萨。
Sullivan, 45, was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court in January 2025 to fill a vacancy on the state's top court by Republican Governor Greg Abbott, who lost his bid for reelection on Tuesday to Democrat Gina Hinojosa.
注：原文中阿博特连任州长语境在此处为得州最高法院相关选举或表述，严格按原文翻译民主党人在选举中赢得了该州九人组成的高等法院中所有四个待选席位，将得克萨斯州最高法院的共和党多数优势缩减至5比4。
Democrats in the election won all four seats up for a vote on the state's nine-member high court, shrinking the Republican majority on the Texas Supreme Court to 5-4.
沙利文的竞选网站曾标榜他“果敢”、“不屈不挠”且“保守”。他在周二的选举中败给了民主党人查里·凯利，并在提交给参议院司法委员会的参议院调查问卷中指出，他保留席位的竞选“未获成功”。此类调查问卷由美国司法部提交给委员会，特朗普政府有时会在正式宣布提名之前将其提交。
Sullivan's campaign website touted him as "bold," "relentless," and "conservative." He lost Tuesday's election to Chari Kelly, a Democrat, and in a Senate questionnaire submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sullivan noted his candidacy to retain his seat had been "unsuccessful." Such questionnaires are submitted to the committee by the US Department of Justice, and the Trump administration at times has submitted them before nominations have been officially announced.