2026年4月3日 美国东部时间上午11:41 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：琼·比斯库皮奇，CNN最高法院首席分析师
最高法院大法官 最高法院 唐纳德·特朗普
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据了解3月20日这起事件的人士透露，美国最高法院大法官塞缪尔·阿利托上月在费城的联邦主义者协会晚宴上突发疾病后被送往医院。
该名大法官接受了检查，并因脱水接受了输液治疗。当晚他在安保团队的陪同下返回了弗吉尼亚州的家中。
阿利托和最高法院公共信息官员均拒绝就这起此前未被报道过的事件置评。
事件发生后的两周里，阿利托出席了口头辩论，在与律师们惯常的交锋环节中看起来状态良好。
阿利托本周三刚年满76岁，担任大法官已有20年，他近期成为了 across 意识形态阵营的评论人士和新闻媒体广泛猜测的对象，人们都在猜测他是否会退休。（他此前拒绝回答记者就该话题提出的问题。）
作为美国生活中宪法解释的最终权威，大法官们的健康状况信息往往难以获取。最高法院公共信息办公室此前曾拒绝透露首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨2020年6月在其马里兰州郊区住宅附近的乡村俱乐部摔倒、头部受伤并被救护车送往医院的消息，直到《华盛顿邮报》对此进行了报道。
如果阿利托决定卸任，这一空缺将为唐纳德·特朗普总统提供第四次任命这位9人制最高法院大法官的机会。特朗普在其第一任期内任命了三位拥有终身任期的大法官。
阿利托的密友告诉CNN，他曾考虑过退休，但目前似乎尚未做出即刻决定。
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阿利托一直是特朗普大胆政策在诉讼中受到挑战时最坚定的支持者之一。在周三关于出生地公民权的口头辩论中，阿利托比其他同僚更乐于接受特朗普试图终结这一长期存在的宪法原则——即任何在美国出生的人都是美国公民。
阿利托于2006年1月由乔治·W·布什任命，后来成为最具影响力的大法官之一，尤其是通过2022年推翻“罗伊诉韦德案”、终结堕胎权的判决，以及在投票权案件中采取收紧限制的立场。
3月20日，阿利托在宾夕法尼亚大学法学院为他举办的联邦主义者协会研讨会后的晚宴上突发疾病。他由安保团队送往当地一家医院。
这场名为“审视塞缪尔·阿利托的法理学”的活动汇集了多位他前法律助理、法学教授以及在最高法院执业的律师。活动不对媒体开放，但通过直播进行了转播。阿利托并未出现在活动日程中，也没有出席全天的研讨会。
当天上午，最高法院正在开庭宣布判决意见。阿利托没有和其他8名同僚一同坐在法官席上，原本计划与安保团队一同驱车前往费城。
联邦主义者协会执行副总裁迪恩·鲁伊特没有回应CNN就阿利托和该协会费城活动提出的置评请求。
3月19日晚，也就是活动前一天，阿利托在华盛顿特区出席了一场单独的晚宴，庆祝圣母大学法学教授谢里夫·吉尔吉斯获奖。吉尔吉斯获得了米斯法治研究所颁发的埃德温·米斯原教旨主义奖，该研究所隶属于迈克·彭斯创立的“推进美国自由”组织。
吉尔吉斯也曾是阿利托的法律助理，次日他出席了3月20日的研讨会。吉尔吉斯没有回复CNN的电子邮件和电话置评请求。
Exclusive: Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital last month in previously undisclosed incident
2026-04-03 11:41 AM ET / CNN
By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst
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US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito attends an event organized by the US Embassy to the Holy See, in Rome, Italy, on September 20, 2025.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital after becoming ill last month at a Federalist Society dinner in Philadelphia, according to people with knowledge of the March 20 incident.
The justice was evaluated and administered fluids for dehydration. He returned to his home in Virginia that night with his security team.
Alito and Supreme Court public information officials declined to comment for the record about the episode, which has not been previously reported.
In the two weeks since the incident, Alito has attended oral arguments and appeared healthy during the usual give-and-take with lawyers at the lectern.
Alito, who turned 76 on Wednesday and has served as a justice for 20 years, has become the subject of widespread speculation from commentators across the ideological spectrum and the news media over whether he might retire. (He has refused to answer journalists’ questions on the subject.)
Information regarding the health of the justices, who are the final word of the reach of the Constitution in American life, is often difficult to obtain. The Supreme Court’s public information office previously declined to reveal that Chief Justice John Roberts had fallen at a country club near his suburban Maryland home in June 2020, injured his head and taken by ambulance to a hospital until it was reported by the Washington Post.
If Alito were to decide to step down, the opening would offer President Donald Trump a fourth appointment to the nine-member bench. Trump named three justices with lifetime tenure in his first term.
Close friends of Alito have told CNN that he has contemplated retirement, but that no decision seems imminent.
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Alito remains one of most consistent votes favoring Trump’s bold policies as they have been challenged in litigation. During Wednesday’s oral arguments over birthright citizenship, Alito expressed more receptiveness than his colleagues to Trump’s attempt to end the longstanding constitutional principle that anyone born in the US is an American citizen.
Appointed by George W. Bush in January 2006, Alito has turned out to be one of the most influential justices, particularly through his 2022 decision reversing Roe v. Wade and abortion rights and his moves to retrench on voting rights cases.
On March 20, Alito became ill at a dinner held after a Federalist Society symposium in his honor at the University of Pennsylvania law school. He was taken by his security detail to an area hospital.
The event, “An Examination of the Jurisprudence of Samuel Alito,” featured several of his former law clerks, law professors and attorneys who practice before the high court. The program was closed to the news media but available through a livestream. Alito was not on the schedule, and he did not appear at the day-long symposium.
That morning, the Supreme Court was in session to hand down opinions. Alito, who was not on the bench with his eight colleagues, was scheduled to drive with his security detail to Philadelphia.
Dean Reuter, executive vice president of the Federalist Society, did not respond to CNN’s questions about Alito and the organization’s Philadelphia events.
The evening earlier, on March 19, Alito attended a separate dinner in Washington, DC, celebrating Notre Dame law professor Sherif Girgis, who had received the Edwin Meese Originalism Award from the Meese Institute for the Rule of Law within the Mike Pence-founded organization of Advancing American Freedom.
Girgis, also a former Alito clerk, appeared the next day at the March 20 symposium. Girgis did not respond to email and telephone queries from CNN.
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