2026年6月26日T19:26:12.857Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：约翰·弗里茨
34分钟前发布
发布于 2026年6月26日美国东部时间下午3:26
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2025年1月20日，美国最高法院大法官塞缪尔·阿利托 Jr. 在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦圆形大厅出席唐纳德·特朗普总统的就职典礼。
最高法院周五表示，大法官塞缪尔·阿利托与索尼娅·索托马约尔之间那场极不寻常的当庭异议交流，源于这位保守派大法官本人的“误解”。
“索托马约尔大法官的办公室事先已通知阿利托大法官，她将当庭宣读异议意见，”最高法院发言人在回应CNN提问的声明中表示。
“这是阿利托大法官本人的误解，”发言人补充道。
这份罕见的声明发布前一天，两位大法官之间爆发了紧张的交锋：作为最高法院资深自由派大法官的索托马约尔，当庭宣读了一桩庇护案件的异议意见。当时即将总结下一份判决书的保守派大法官阿利托，显然对同僚的发言感到意外。
相关报道：《阿利托对索托马约尔的急躁反应凸显最高法院内部紧张关系》 阅读时长6分钟
“如果我早知道会有异议意见被当庭宣读，我本会在我的当庭陈述中补充很多内容，”阿利托说道。在通常高度程式化的判决书公布流程中，这番言论打破了常规，实属罕见。
阿利托撰写了周四公布的四份判决书中的三份，他当时暗示自己并未意识到索托马约尔会口头宣读异议意见。口头异议非常罕见，通常体现出大法官对多数方意见的强烈反对。
此次交锋正值最高法院内部显现不和迹象之际，本届任期即将进入最后阶段，法院正忙于处理多桩涉及唐纳德·特朗普总统以及文化争议议题的案件。阿利托与索托马约尔的这场争执发生在一桩边境驱逐庇护寻求者政策的案件中，保守派多数以6票对3票的表决结果支持了该政策。
Supreme Court says Alito’s verbal reaction to Sotomayor was a ‘misunderstanding’ by Alito
2026-06-26T19:26:12.857Z / CNN
By John Fritze
34 min ago
PUBLISHED Jun 26, 2026, 3:26 PM ET
Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. attends President Donald Trump’s inauguration in the Rotunda of the US Capitol on January 20, 2025.
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The highly unusual exchange between Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Sonia Sotomayor over a dissent read from the bench was based on a “misunderstanding” by the conservative justice, the Supreme Court said Friday.
“Justice Alito was notified in advance by Justice Sotomayor’s chambers that she would be reading a dissent from the bench,” the court spokesperson said in a statement in response to questions from CNN.
“It was a misunderstanding on Justice Alito’s part,” the spokesperson added.
The rare statement came a day after a tense back-and-forth between the two justices when Sotomayor, the court’s senior liberal, publicly read a dissent in a case involving asylum claims. Alito, a conservative who was then set to summarize the next opinion, appeared taken aback by his colleague’s remarks.
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“There’s much that I would have added to my bench statement had I known there would be a dissent read,” Alito said, an unusual break from protocol during what is normally a highly choregraphed release of opinions.
Alito, who authored three of the four opinions released Thursday, suggested at the time that he didn’t realize Sotomayor would read her dissent verbally. Verbal dissents are rare and usually underscore a justice’s strong disagreement with the majority’s opinion.
The back-and-forth came amid signs of strife behind the curtain of the high court as it veers toward its final days of the current term juggling a number of cases involving President Donald Trump and culture war issue. The Alito-Sotomayor exchange came in a case dealing with a policy of turning asylum seekers away at the border, which the conservative majority approved in a 6-3 decision.
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