大法官Sonia Sotomayor盼最高法院推翻总统豁免裁决：希望法院收回一些「疯狂」判决
华盛顿—美国最高法院大法官 Sonia Sotomayor 11月7日在弗吉尼亚州 Mount Vernon 的华盛顿图书馆参加公民教育公开对谈时表示，她希望最高法院推翻2024年的总统豁免裁决，并称希望法院收回它做过的一些「疯狂」判决。
「我经常写异议意见。我希望法院能收回它做过的一些疯狂的事情。我是在开玩笑，」她对现场听众说，随后补了一句「也许不是」，并点名豁免案。她接着说：「说正经的，我公开谈过这件事，有些判决我希望能在我有生之年被推翻。豁免案就是其中之一。」
她所指的是最高法院2024年以6比3作出的裁决：前总统就其公务行为至少享有推定豁免。该裁决打乱了针对特朗普总统试图推翻2020年大选结果的刑事案件。Sotomayor 当时为法院三位自由派大法官撰写异议意见，写道该裁决「嘲弄了我国宪法和政府体制的根基原则，即任何人都不得凌驾于法律之上」。首席大法官 John Roberts 在多数意见中则写道：「总统并非凌驾于法律之上。」
被问到对法治现状有多大希望时，Sotomayor 说法治正经历一段「艰难时期」，挑战来自许多层面，「这是我国历史上一个真正关键的时刻」。她说国家会走出这段时期，但会有所改变：「有些规范我们可能永远失去了。但我不认为我们会作为一个民主国家失败。」她还表示，自己同情必须向学生解释法律变化的教师，因为「本院的判例法已经发生了一些系统性变化」。
这场对谈是 Mount Vernon 为纪念美国建国250周年举行的乔治·华盛顿研讨会系列活动之一，对谈由公民教育组织 iCivics 首席执行官 Louise Dubé 主持。Sotomayor 担任 iCivics 董事，该组织由已故大法官 Sandra Day O'Connor 创办。据《国会山报》报道，这是她首次公开评论本周中期选举的结果。此次公开露面距离中期选举只有数日，选举中特朗普总统所属政党失去了众议院和参议院的控制权以及多数州长职位。
（来源：美国最高法院）
Justice Sonia Sotomayor Hopes Supreme Court Will Overturn Presidential Immunity Ruling and Take Back 'Crazy Things'
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said on November 7, during a public discussion on civics education at the Washington Library at Mount Vernon in Virginia, that she hopes the Supreme Court will overturn its 2024 presidential immunity ruling, saying she hopes the court will take back some of the "crazy things" it has done.
"I dissent a lot. I'm hoping that the court will take back some of the crazy things that it's done. I'm only joking," she told the audience, before adding, "Maybe not," and singling out the immunity decision. "No, seriously," she continued. "I've spoken openly about this, there's some opinions that I hope in my lifetime will get overturned. The immunity case is one of them."
She was referring to the court's 6-3 ruling in 2024 that former presidents enjoy at least presumptive immunity for their official acts, a decision that upended the criminal case against President Donald Trump over his attempts to subvert his 2020 election loss. Sotomayor authored the dissent from the court's three liberal justices, writing that the decision "makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law." Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority that "the President is not above the law."
Asked how hopeful she is about the rule of law, Sotomayor said it is going through a "rough patch," with challenges on many levels, calling it "a really critical point in our history." She said the nation will come out of it, though changed: "There are some norms we may have lost forever. But I don't think that we will fail as a democracy." She also said she has sympathy for teachers who must explain what is happening with the law, because "there's been some systemic changes in my court's jurisprudence."
The discussion was part of a multi-day George Washington Symposium at Mount Vernon celebrating the country's 250th anniversary, and was hosted by Louise Dubé, chief executive of iCivics. Sotomayor serves on the board of iCivics, the civics education group founded by the late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. According to The Hill, the appearance marked her first public comments on this week's midterm elections, which came days earlier and in which President Trump's party lost control of the House and the Senate and a majority of governorships.
(Source: U.S. Supreme Court)
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图片来源：图：美国最高法院大法官 Sonia Sotomayor 官方肖像。Steve Petteway 摄，美国最高法院收藏，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Official portrait of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Photo by Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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