美国参议院司法委员会的共和党人周二开始推动，在民主党于1月掌控参议院之前，尽可能多地考虑并推进总统唐纳德·特朗普剩余的司法提名人。
Republicans on the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday began a push to consider and advance as many of President Donald Trump's remaining judicial nominees as possible before Democrats take control of the chamber in January.
该委员会即将卸任的共和党主席查克·格拉斯利参议员驳斥了民主党的投诉，即共和党人绕过委员会长期以来的惯例，加快提名人的确认进程，他说：“我知道接下来会发生什么。”“我要非常清楚地说：一些民主党人如此憎恨特朗普总统，以至于他们计划在我们国家历史上第一次阻挠总统任命法官的能力，”格拉斯利说。
Senator Chuck Grassley, the committee's outgoing Republican chairman, dismissed Democratic complaints that Republicans were bypassing longstanding committee practices to speed nominees toward confirmation, saying, "I know what's coming." "I want to be very clear: Some Democrats so despise President Trump that for the first time in our nation’s history they’re planning to stonewall a president’s ability to appoint judges," Grassley said.
委员会民主党人在一定程度上削弱了这一信息，当其中四人与共和党人一起支持来自阿拉斯加的凯尔·里登时，里登是特朗普的地区法院提名人，其提名以16比6推进。
Committee Democrats undercut that message somewhat when four of them joined Republicans in supporting Kyle Reardon of Alaska, a Trump district court pick whose nomination advanced 16-6.
另外三名地区法院提名人，东肯塔基地区的丹尼尔·巴卢、南得克萨斯地区的理查德·贝内特和北得克萨斯地区的考特妮·科克，以12比10的党派路线投票通过了委员会。
Three other district court nominees, Daniel Ballou for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Richard Bennett for the Southern District of Texas and Courtney Coker for the Northern District of Texas, cleared the panel on party-line 12-10 votes.
委员会随后为另外四名司法提名人举行了听证会，包括密西西比州菲尔普斯·邓巴律师事务所合伙人托德·巴特勒，他被提名担任位于新奥尔良的美国第五巡回上诉法院的一个席位。
The committee then held a hearing for four additional judicial nominees, including Todd Butler, a partner at Phelps Dunbar in Mississippi who was nominated to a seat on the New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
预计将有更多司法提名人于11月18日出庭，其中包括得克萨斯州的两人，他们是在民主党在11月3日中期选举中获胜后才被提名的。
Several additional judicial nominees are expected to appear on November 18, including two in Texas who were put forward only after Democrats came out on top in the November 3 midterms.
如果他们得到参议院全体确认，将增加特朗普在第二个任期内已作出的56个终身制司法任命。他在第一个任期内作出了234个任命，包括三名美国最高法院大法官，他们帮助最高法院形成了6比3的保守派多数。
Should they be confirmed by the full Senate, they would add to 56 lifetime judicial appointments Trump has made in his second term. He made 234 in his first stint in office, including three US Supreme Court justices who helped give the high court its 6-3 conservative majority.
该委员会的头号民主党人迪克·杜宾参议员指责共和党人在中期选举后走捷径，在跛脚鸭会议期间强行通过特朗普剩余的提名人。
Senator Dick Durbin, the panel's top Democrat, accused Republicans of cutting corners post-midterms to jam through Trump's remaining nominees during the lame-duck session.
他说，委员会正在连续几周举行听证会，在收到所需文件后不到28天就审议提名人，甚至在联邦调查局背景调查尚未获得参议院工作人员批准时也继续推进。
He said the committee was holding hearings in back-to-back weeks, considering nominees less than 28 days after receiving required paperwork and proceeding even when FBI background checks had not been cleared by Senate staff.
“为什么？”杜宾说。“因为共和党人正在失去多数席位，他们担心，当民主党占据多数席位时，不合格的MAGA忠诚者无法经受住严格审查。”巴特勒是唯一一位尚未出席该委员会听证会的上诉法院提名人，他面临着杜宾和新泽西州民主党参议员科里·布克的质询，内容涉及他为被指控过度使用武力的警察辩护的工作，包括一起涉及一名10岁黑人儿童因在公共场所小便而被逮捕和起诉的诉讼。
"Why?" Durbin said. "Because Republicans are losing the majority and they are afraid that unqualified MAGA loyalists won’t withstand close scrutiny when Democrats are in the majority." Butler, the only remaining appeals court nominee who had yet to appear before the panel, faced questions from Durbin and Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey about his work defending police officers accused of excessive force, including in a lawsuit involving the arrest and prosecution of a 10-year-old Black child for public urination.
巴特勒强调，虽然他辩护过许多“棘手”的案件，但他的执业工作很大一部分也集中在培训执法人员如何不侵犯权利、如何尊重人们的公民权利。
Butler stressed that while he had defended a number of "difficult" cases, much of his practice was also focused on training law enforcement officers on how to not violate rights and how to respect people's civil rights.
“我尽我所能为他们辩护，但这只讲述了我执业工作的一半故事，”巴特勒说。
"I defend them to the best of my ability, but that only tells half of the story of my practice," Butler said.