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2026年3月17日 美国东部时间晚上8:00 更新于3小时前
Anna St. John，被提名为路易斯安那州联邦法官，2026年2月4日在美国华盛顿特区出席美国参议院司法委员会听证会。图片来源：U.S. Senate/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo 购买授权，在新标签页打开
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3月17日（路透社）- 周二，尽管民主党人和一名前福克斯新闻主持人反对她五年前就反对禁止职场性骚扰或性侵犯指控强制仲裁的证词，一名保守派法律活动人士还是获得了美国参议院的批准，将成为路易斯安那州的联邦法官。
由共和党主导的美国参议院以51票对45票通过，确认汉密尔顿林肯法律研究所（Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute）主席兼总法律顾问安娜·圣约翰（Anna St. John）担任路易斯安那州东区联邦地区法院法官席位。
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共和党总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）在1月的一条社交媒体帖子中宣布了对圣约翰的提名，称赞她”有着坚定保护言论自由、捍卫宗教自由、并阻止男性参与女性体育赛事的坚定记录”。
这位总部位于新奥尔良的律师自2015年起在法律活动家泰德·弗兰克（Ted Frank）的”集体诉讼公平中心”（Center for Class Action Fairness）工作，该中心现已成为汉密尔顿林肯法律研究所的一部分。该机构致力于推动反对集体诉讼和解的运动，声称这类和解仅惠及律师，而消费者几乎得不到任何救济。
共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪（John Kennedy）（路易斯安那州议员，参议院司法委员会成员）周二在一份声明中表示：”她对宪法了如指掌，而且具备成为一名优秀、公正法官所需的智慧和经验。”
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她的提名遭到包括参议院司法委员会最高民主党议员迪克·德宾（Dick Durbin）在内的民主党人的反对。德宾在本月早些时候的听证会上表示，她的”记录反映出一种党派意识形态，让人严重质疑她能否公正执法”。
他指出，前福克斯新闻主播格雷琴·卡尔森（Gretchen Carlson）也反对她的提名。十年前，卡尔森提起了一起备受瞩目的诉讼，指控福克斯新闻前首席执行官罗杰·艾尔斯（Roger Ailes）对其进行性骚扰。艾尔斯于2017年去世，否认了这些指控。
卡尔森在1月29日由进步组织”正义行动联盟”（Alliance for Justice Action）联合撰写并在网上发表的评论文章中称，圣约翰在国会作证时试图”欺骗”那些在#MeToo运动爆发后寻求废除强制仲裁的女性。
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跨党派法案：2022年，美国国会通过了《终止性骚扰和性侵犯强制仲裁法案》（Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act），禁止企业强迫声称遭受性侵犯或骚扰的员工通过仲裁解决纠纷，而不能选择提起诉讼。
圣约翰在2021年11月向美国众议院司法委员会作证时反对该法案，在书面证词中表示，仲裁”即使在性骚扰和性侵犯等严重伤害问题上，也可以是一种更快、更廉价的纠纷解决方式”。
在2月4日的听证会上被问及她的证词时，圣约翰再次为仲裁辩护，称它”可能是有益的，并且往往能为原告和性侵犯幸存者带来更高的赔偿金额”。
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By Nate Raymond
March 17, 2026 8:00 PM UTC Updated 3 hours ago
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March 17 (Reuters) – A conservative legal activist won U.S. Senate approval Tuesday to become a federal judge in Louisiana, despite objections by Democrats and a former Fox News host over testimony she gave five years ago opposing a ban on mandatory arbitration for workplace sexual assault or harassment claims.
The Republican-led U.S. Senate voted 51-45 to confirm Anna St. John, the president and general counsel of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, to a seat on the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
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Republican President Donald Trump announced St. John’s nomination in a January social media post that touted her “strong record of tirelessly fighting to protect Free Speech, champion Religious Liberty, and keep men out of women’s sports.”
The New Orleans-based lawyer has worked since 2015 at legal activist Ted Frank’s Center for Class Action Fairness, now part of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, helping advance its campaign against class action settlements it says benefits lawyers while delivering little to no relief to consumers.
“She knows our Constitution like the back of her hand and has the smarts and experience to be a great, fair judge,” Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Her nomination was opposed by Democrats including Senator Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who during a hearing earlier this month said her “record reflects a partisan ideology and raises serious questions about her ability to impartially administer justice.”
He pointed to opposition to her nomination from former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, who a decade ago filed a high-profile lawsuit accusing Roger Ailes, Fox News’ former chief executive, of sexual harassment. Ailes, who died in 2017, denied the claims.
Carlson in an opinion piece she co-wrote that was published online, opens new tab January 29 by the progressive group Alliance for Justice Action claimed that St. John while testifying before Congress had sought to “gaslight” women seeking to eradicate forced arbitration following the onset of the #MeToo movement.
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The bipartisan Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act was passed by Congress in 2022 and bans companies from forcing employees who allege sexual assault or harassment to settle their claims with an arbitrator without the option of filing a lawsuit.
St. John testified in November 2021 before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee against the bill, saying in a written submission that arbitration can be a faster, less expensive way to resolve disputes, “even when serious harms such as sexual harassment and assault are at issue.”
Asked during a February 4 hearing about her testimony, St. John again defended arbitration, saying it “can be beneficial and that it can result, and often does result, in much higher recoveries for plaintiffs and sexual assault survivors.”
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