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华盛顿7月14日电（路透社）——美国最高法院大法官艾米·科尼·巴雷特与埃琳娜·卡根将于周二前往国会作证，与此同时最高法院正寻求年度预算增长约10%，以在针对法官的威胁不断升级之际加强安保。
此次作证将在众议院和参议院拨款小组委员会进行，这是自2019年以来，现任大法官首次在国会作证，不包括针对大法官提名人的参议院确认听证会。
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在此期间，最高法院由6名保守派大法官和3名自由派大法官组成的多数派，通过关于堕胎、总统权力等争议议题的标志性裁决重塑了美国法律，同时也面临持续的道德审查和公众支持率下滑。
两周前，最高法院结束了一个为期九个月的庭审期，该庭审期的焦点涉及总统唐纳德·特朗普及其政府的法律纠纷。最高法院支持了特朗普大幅扩大行政权力的主要举措。
针对联邦法官的日益加剧的威胁
根据美国法警局的数据，去年有近400名法官遭遇威胁，截至今年7月1日，已有276名法官成为袭击目标。
作为特朗普任命的三名保守派大法官之一的巴雷特，以及三名自由派大法官之一的卡根，预计将为最高法院下一财年近2.3亿美元的预算申请进行辩护，较本财年增长约10%。
根据美国法院行政办公室（司法部门的行政机构）的说法，其中超过1400万美元将用于扩大最高法院警察局“对大法官住所及家属的保护行动”。
最高法院每年都会向国会申请资金以支持其运作，但大法官们并不总是亲自到场为这些申请作证。
“这种情况必须停止”
今年3月，首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨表示，以个人名义针对法官的敌意言论“非常危险，这种情况必须停止”。这番言论发表仅几天后，特朗普就在社交媒体上猛烈抨击了那些做出不利于他和其政府裁决的法官。
罗伯茨的此番言论是在其2024年终报告之后发表的，该报告强调近年来“各级司法机构已查明的威胁出现显著上升”。
在最引人注目的事件之一中，2022年一名加州居民携带手枪出现在大法官布雷特·卡瓦诺的马里兰州住所附近。索菲·罗斯克对企图暗杀罪认罪，并于去年被判处八年联邦监禁。
自2019年以来，保守派多数派推翻了长期以来美国自由派珍视的多项先例，包括1973年罗伊诉韦德案的裁决，该裁决曾承认堕胎权属于宪法权利。
在道德审查的压力下，最高法院于2023年通过了首部行为准则，但批评人士称该准则缺乏有效的执行机制，因为它将回避决定权交给了大法官本人，且未设立任何执行机构。
有关一些大法官行为的质疑一直存在，其中包括大法官塞缪尔·阿利托和克拉伦斯·托马斯。
阿利托告诉《纽约时报》，2020年大选后挂在他一处住宅外的倒置美国国旗，是他的妻子在与邻居就邻居草坪上批评时任总统特朗普的标语发生争执时挂上的。
这面倒置的国旗成为了特朗普支持者的抗议象征，当时特朗普正凭借虚假的广泛选举欺诈指控，试图推翻其2020年败选给民主党人乔·拜登的结果。
托马斯为自己未披露由共和党亿万富翁哈兰·克劳支付的豪华旅行一事进行了辩护，称他认为这些旅行属于可豁免的“私人款待”，并表示未在披露表格中申报与克劳相关的一笔房地产交易是无意的。
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Justices Barrett, Kagan testify before Congress as court seeks security funds
2026-07-14T10:09:03.282Z / Reuters
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett takes part in the Supreme Court Fellows Program annual lecture at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 12, 2026. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan will testify before Congress on Tuesday as the court seeks a roughly 10% annual budget increase to bolster security amid rising threats against judges.
The appearances, before appropriations subcommittees of the House of Representatives and Senate, are the first by sitting justices before Congress since 2019, excluding Senate confirmation hearings for nominees.
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In that time, the court’s 6-3 conservative majority has reshaped U.S. law with landmark rulings on abortion, presidential power and other contentious issues, while facing sustained ethics scrutiny and a decline in public approval.
Two weeks ago the Supreme Court ended a nine-month term highlighted by legal disputes involving President Donald Trump and his administration. The court has backed major elements of Trump’s expansive use of executive authority.
RISING THREATS AGAINST FEDERAL JUDGES
According to data from the U.S. Marshals Service, nearly 400 judges faced threats last year and 276 have been targeted this year as of July 1.
Barrett, one of Trump’s three conservative appointees, and Kagan, one of three liberal justices, are expected to defend the court’s nearly $230 million request for the next fiscal year, a roughly 10% increase from this year.
More than $14 million would go toward expanding the Supreme Court Police Department’s “protective activities for justices’ residences and families,” according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the judiciary’s administrative arm.
The court asks Congress for money every year to support its operations but the justices don’t always appear in person to testify about these requests.
‘IT’S GOT TO STOP’
In March, Chief Justice John Roberts said hostility directed in personal terms at judges is “dangerous and it’s got to stop,” commenting just days after Trump issued a social media broadside against judges who ruled against him and his administration.
Roberts’ remarks followed his 2024 end-of-year report highlighting “a significant uptick in identified threats at all levels of the judiciary” over recent years.
In one of the most high-profile incidents, a California resident appeared near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home in 2022 armed with a handgun. Sophie Roske pleaded guilty to attempted assassination and was sentenced last year to eight years in federal prison.
Since 2019, the conservative majority has overturned precedents long cherished by American liberals, including the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had recognized a constitutional right to abortion.
Amid ethics scrutiny, the Supreme Court in 2023 adopted its first code of conduct, though critics said it lacked meaningful enforcement because it left recusal decisions to the justices themselves and created no enforcement mechanism.
Questions have persisted over the conduct of some justices, including Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas.
Alito told the New York Times that an upside-down U.S. flag displayed outside one of his homes after the 2020 election was placed there by his wife during a dispute with a neighbor over a sign on the neighbor’s lawn critical of then-President Trump.
The inverted flag became a symbol of protest by Trump supporters as he sought to overturn his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden with false claims of widespread voting fraud.
Thomas has defended his not disclosing luxury trips paid for by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, saying he believed they qualified as exempt “personal hospitality,” and has described the omission of a real estate transaction involving Crow from disclosure forms as inadvertent.
Reporting by John Kruzel and Andrew Chung; Editing by Howard Goller
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