2026年5月5日 / 美国东部时间上午10:36 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿讯——最高法院大法官尼尔·戈萨奇驳斥了特朗普总统提出的最高法院大法官应效忠于任命他们的总统的说法，称自己的忠诚对象是美国宪法和法律。
此前，特朗普总统曾多次严厉抨击最高法院今年2月以6票对3票的投票结果推翻其影响最广泛的关税政策的裁决。戈萨奇和艾米·科尼·巴雷特大法官均由特朗普任命，两人都加入了多数派阵营，特朗普也因此对两人的投票提出了尤为尖锐的批评。
上月，特朗普在其Truth社交平台的帖子中声称，民主党总统任命的大法官“像胶水一样团结在一起，完全效忠于将他们推上职位的民众和意识形态”。
“某些共和党任命者，”他继续写道，“任由民主党人摆布，总是想博得好感、追求政治正确，甚至更糟的是，想要标榜自己有多‘独立’，几乎不效忠于任命他们的人，更重要的是，不效忠于他们获得提名和确认时所秉持的意识形态。”
但在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻首席法律记者简·克劳福德采访时，戈萨奇表示，大法官无需效忠于总统。
“我的忠诚对象是宪法和美国法律，”他说，“这就是我宣誓就职时的承诺，事情就是这么简单。”
戈萨奇于2017年以49岁的年龄加入最高法院，他表示，宪法赋予联邦法官终身任职是有原因的。
“好好想想，”他对克劳福德说，“你们给了九位老人终身任职的资格。但你们之所以这么做，是因为你们相信大法官的职责只是公正地适用法律，不考虑任何人、任何事，不掺杂政治或任何杂音。”
戈萨奇表示，他认为宪法中规定的联邦司法体系结构是合理有效的。
“我会在意左右中各派人士对我的评价吗？当然不会。”他说。
戈萨奇与合著者珍妮·尼茨共同创作了一本新的儿童读物《1776年的英雄：美国独立宣言的故事》，该书于本周一上架发售。
除了抨击最高法院推翻其大部分关税政策的裁决外，特朗普还暗示，他认为最高法院将推翻其旨在终止出生公民权的行政令。这位总统上月旁听了相关案件的口头辩论，并在社交媒体上写道：“根据我在法庭上亲眼目睹的共和党任命大法官的提问来看，我们输了。”
但最高法院也遭到了民主党人的批评，最近一次是因其上周作出的削弱《投票权法案》一项关键条款的裁决。众议院民主党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯称最高法院“不合法”，保守派大法官是“极端主义者”。
这一裁决，加上最高法院2022年推翻“罗诉韦德案”的判决，以及2024年有关总统豁免权的裁决，再次引发了推动最高法院改革的呼声。马里兰州民主党众议员约翰尼·奥尔谢夫斯基本周一提出了一项宪法修正案，旨在为大法官设定18年的任期限制，民主党人近年来也一直在呼吁增加最高法院的大法官席位。然而，这些提案在国会均未获得支持，尤其不太可能在参议院获得通过——参议院的大多数立法都需要60票才能推进。
美国国会于1869年将最高法院大法官人数定为9人，戈萨奇表示这一人数比例“运行得相当不错”，这与已故大法官露丝·巴德·金斯伯格2019年表达的观点一致。
他还敦促那些倡导改革的人，务必了解该机构的历史，并仔细考虑实施此类改革可能带来的后果。
“你可能对改革有一些很棒的想法，而且它们可能是正确的，”戈萨奇说，“但在动手修改之前，请务必明确你要改革的是什么。一旦你开始动手调整，就别指望别人不会跟着效仿。到那时，改革的终点又会在哪里？”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extended-interview-supreme-court-justice-neil-gorsuch/
Amid attacks by President Trump, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says “my loyalty is to the Constitution”
May 5, 2026 / 10:36 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch rebuffed President Trump’s suggestion that members of the high court owe loyalty to the president who appointed them, saying that his loyalty is to the Constitution and the laws of the United States.
The president has repeatedly lambasted the Supreme Court for its 6-3 ruling in February invalidating his most sweeping tariffs. Gorsuch and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, both appointed to the high court by Mr. Trump, were among the six justices in the majority, and the president has leveled particularly harsh criticisms of them for their votes.
In a Truth Social post last month, Mr. Trump claimed the justices appointed by Democratic presidents “stick together like glue, totally loyal to the people and ideology that got them there.”
“Certain Republican Appointees,” he continued, “let the Democrats push them around, always wanting to be popular, politically correct, or even worse, wanting to show how ‘independent’ they are, with very little loyalty to the man who appointed them or, more importantly, the ideology from which they came to be Nominated and Confirmed.”
But in an interview with CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford, Gorsuch said a justice does not owe a president loyalty.
“My loyalty is to the Constitution, the laws of the United States,” he said. “That’s the oath I took. It’s really just that simple.”
Gorsuch, who joined the Supreme Court in 2017, when he was 49, said there’s a reason why the Constitution gives federal judges life tenure.
“Think about it,” he told Crawford. “You’ve given nine old people life tenure. But you give them life tenure if you believe their job is only to apply the law fairly without regard to anybody or anything else or politics or any of the noise.”
Gorsuch said he believes the structure of the federal judiciary laid out in the Constitution works.
“Do I care what people say left, right, center about me? Nah,” he said.
Gorsuch and co-author Janie Nitze have written a new children’s book, called “Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration of Independence,” that hit shelves Tuesday.
In addition to attacking the Supreme Court for its ruling striking down most of his tariffs, Mr. Trump has indicated that he believes the high court will invalidate his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The president attended oral arguments for the case last month and wrote on social media, “based on the questioning by Republican Nominated Justices that I watched firsthand in the Court, we lose.”
But the Supreme Court has also come under criticism from Democrats, most recently for its decision last week weakening a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the high court “illegitimate” and the conservative justices “extremists.”
That ruling, as well as the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade and its 2024 decision on presidential immunity, have reinvigorated calls for reforms to the Supreme Court. Maryland Democratic Rep. Johnny Olszewski on Monday proposed a constitutional amendment to establish 18-year term limits for justices, and Democrats have in recent years pushed to add seats to the high court. Those proposals, however, have failed to gain traction in Congress and are especially unlikely to clear the Senate, where most legislation requires 60 votes to advance.
Congress set the number of Supreme Court justices at nine in 1869, and Gorsuch said that composition has “worked reasonably well,” echoing a view expressed by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2019.
He also urged those advocating for reforms to make sure they know the history of the institution and have thought through the consequences of instituting such changes.
“You may have some great ideas about reforming things and they might be right,” Gorsuch said. “Make sure you know what you’re reforming before you tinker with it. Once you start tinkering, you expect other people to tinker. And then where does it end?”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extended-interview-supreme-court-justice-neil-gorsuch/
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