发布时间：2026年2月17日，美国东部时间下午3:23 / CNN政治版
作者：[Tierney Sneed]
发布时间：3小时前
机构：最高法院
美国华盛顿特区最高法院于2月2日宣布。
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最高法院周二表示，将开始使用软件辅助大法官决定是否回避存在潜在利益冲突的案件。
法院发布的简短新闻稿描述了一种电子匹配流程，一些下级法院已在使用该流程，将案件当事人与法官自行整理的个人及组织关联清单进行比对。2023年大法官行为准则声明中曾提到，他们正在考虑自行采用此类工具。
新闻稿称：”该软件将通过比对案件当事人和律师的信息，与每位大法官办公室创建的清单进行自动回避检查。该系统由法院信息技术办公室与法院法律办公室和书记员办公室合作设计开发。”
最高法院发言人拒绝对CNN的后续提问作出回应。法院在宣布采用该软件的同时，还推出了规则调整，要求当事人在提交文件时需包含股票代码，供新软件使用。
法院改革组织”修复最高法院”负责人Gabe Roth表示，周二的宣布是积极的一步，但指出下级法院自2007年起就已使用类似软件，并质疑为何大法官们花了两年多时间才采用他们2023年就表示正在考虑的工具。
最高法院的伦理规范做法向来不透明，2023年的声明是在对最高法院成员（尤其是克拉伦斯·托马斯大法官）接受他人资助的奢华旅行进行前所未有的审查后才发布的，尽管这些旅行在财务披露表中未予报告。索尼娅·索托马约尔大法官和尼尔·戈萨奇大法官也因未回避涉及资助其图书交易的出版公司的案件而受到批评。
大法官们需自行遵守司法伦理义务，没有外部机构对其遵守其他司法机构规则的情况进行问责。
虽然大法官们会公开表明已回避某案件，但只有部分人会说明回避原因。
值得注意的是，在艾米·科尼·巴雷特大法官（当时仍在联邦第七巡回上诉法院任职）的确认听证会上，她公布了上诉法院使用回避软件比对的潜在利益冲突人员、组织或公司清单。
此后唯一一位被确认的大法官凯坦吉·布朗·杰克逊也公布了她在联邦哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院任职时整理的清单。在确认材料中，两位法官都承诺继续使用回避清单以避免利益冲突。
CNN琼·比斯库皮奇对此报道有贡献。
Supreme Court adopts automated recusal software to avoid ethics conflicts
PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2026, 3:23 PM ET / CNN Politics
By
[Tierney Sneed]
3 hr ago
Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on February 2.
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The Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will start using software to assist in justices’ decisions to recuse themselves from cases that present a potential conflict of interest.
A brief press release issued by the court described an electronic matching process already used by some lower courts to compare a case’s parties to lists judges assemble of individuals and organizations they have ties to. A 2023 code of conduct statement from the justices said they were considering adopting such a tool themselves.
“This software will be used to run automated recusal checks by comparing information about parties and attorneys in a case with lists created by each Justice’s chambers,” the press release said. “The system was designed and created by the Court’s Office of Information Technology in cooperation with the Court’s Legal Office and Clerk’s Office.”
Spokespeople for the high court declined to answer follow up questions from CNN. The court announced it was embracing the software as it rolled out tweaks to its rules that instructed parties to include their stock ticker symbols in filings to be used by the new software.
Gabe Roth, who heads the court reform organization Fix the Court, said Tuesday’s announcement was a positive step, but noted that lower courts have been using similar software since 2007 and questioned why it took more than two years for the justices to embrace the tool they said they were considering in 2023.
The Supreme Court’s approach to ethics is notoriously opaque, and the 2023 statement came only after an unprecedented scrutiny of lavish trips taken by members of the court — and particularly, Justice Clarence Thomas — that went unreported on financial disclosure forms, despite being subsidized by others. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch have also been criticized for not recusing in cases that involved the publishing companies that financed their book deals.
The justices police their own obligations to judicial ethics, with no outside body holding them accountable to the rules that govern the rest of the judiciary.
While justices will publicly indicate that they have recused from a case, only some will also give any sort of reason for why they’re doing so.
It was notable during the confirmation process for Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who then served on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals, when she released the list of people, organizations or companies that would present potential conflicts that the appeals court ran against its recusal software.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the only justice confirmed since, also released the list she had assembled for her former post on the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals. In their confirmation submissions, both jurists had committed to continuing to use their recusal lists to avoid conflicts.
CNN’s Joan Biskupic contributed to this report.
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