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大法官强调最高法院审议中透明度与保密性的平衡
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戈萨奇就针对司法系统的威胁打破沉默：“暴力永远不是解决办法”
大法官尼尔·戈萨奇谈及针对法官的暴力行为上升趋势，以及他担忧的最高法院泄密事件引发的连锁反应。
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最高法院大法官尼尔·戈萨奇公开谴责针对法官的威胁不断升级，在接受福克斯新闻数字频道的专访时，他就针对司法系统的暴力行为打破了沉默。
戈萨奇此番言论发表之际，最高法院大法官们的安保担忧日益加剧。2022年，最高法院多布斯诉杰克逊妇女健康组织案的判决草案泄密事件引发了针对大法官住所的抗议活动，加剧了人们对他们安全的担忧，尤其是在布雷特·卡瓦诺大法官遭遇刺杀未遂事件之后。
戈萨奇强调，当前以日益激烈的公众言论和法院机密信息泄露为特征的环境，正对司法机构构成更广泛的风险。
“我们必须能够倾听彼此的意见，”戈萨奇说，“暴力永远不是解决办法。”
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他的此番言论正值近年来联邦司法系统成员面临日益严峻的安全风险之际，其中包括多布斯案判决前针对卡瓦诺的刺杀未遂事件。当时最高法院推翻了罗伊诉韦德案，终结了联邦宪法规定的堕胎权。
2022年6月8日，来自加利福尼亚州西米谷的跨性别者尼古拉斯·约翰·罗斯基带着装在托运行李箱里的枪支和弹药前往卡瓦诺在马里兰州的住所。据美国司法部消息，当局后来在罗斯基的随身物品中发现了枪支、战术刀、扎带、胶带、锤子、撬棍、开锁工具及其他物品。
看到住宅外的美国副法警后，罗斯基离开现场并拨打了911，告诉调度员自己有杀人和自杀念头，并从加州赶来杀害一名最高法院大法官。
事发前，罗斯基曾在网上搜索如何伤害他人的信息——其中一条搜索内容为“扭杀或刀刺哪种造成的伤害更大”——并表示希望影响多布斯案的判决结果。罗斯基因刺杀未遂被判处八年监禁及终身监管释放。
尽管戈萨奇没有直接针对具体事件发表评论，但他向福克斯新闻数字频道强调，保持文明对话和机构边界对维护最高法院的职能以及联邦司法系统的独立性至关重要。
“我们的工作需要在透明度和保密性之间找到平衡，对吗？”戈萨奇说，“我认为，我们能够让民众旁听庭审辩论，这是件好事。如今，你可以实时听取法庭辩论中的每一句话。
“与此同时，我们也必须能够私下交流，在会议室里坦诚地讨论我们的观点。”
戈萨奇指出，这些机密信息泄露事件——包括备受关注的多布斯案泄密，以及2016年大法官之间交换的最高法院机密备忘录遭泄露等事件——可能会进一步削弱公众对司法系统的信任。
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“想想我们的制度有多强大，所有派系都能参与法律制定，”戈萨奇说，“这让我们的判决比独裁、君主制或寡头政治下的判决更明智。这些制度要脆弱得多，不是吗？”
与此同时，戈萨奇强调，维护法院内部审议的边界至关重要，尤其是在备受关注的泄密事件发生后。
“一方面需要透明度……另一方面审议过程需要保密性，”他说，“最终你可以了解到我对某个案件的所有想法。……但我们难道不需要一定的保密性吗？当然需要。”
他警告称，失去这种平衡可能会削弱公众对法院的信任，以及大法官们在闭门会议上进行坦诚辩论的能力。他指出，这种做法可以追溯到美国建国之初。
“建国先贤们认为，在讨论宪法时锁上门非常重要，”戈萨奇说，并补充称詹姆斯·麦迪逊后来也曾表示，如果没有这种隐私，“就不会有美国宪法”。
戈萨奇将这些担忧与更广泛的司法独立宪法原则联系起来，辩称司法机构的职能取决于其免受政治压力和公众反弹的影响。
“我们为什么需要独立的司法系统？”戈萨奇说，“建国先贤们不希望[法官受制于政治势力]。……他们说，必须有独立的法官，这样当你来到法庭时，无论你多么不受欢迎，都能得到公平、中立的法律适用。”
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尽管大法官们之间存在意识形态分歧，但戈萨奇表示，大家仍共同尊重宪法，他认为这种动态在日益两极分化的时代至关重要。
“当我和同事们围坐在桌旁，我们意见不合时，我唯一确定的是，对面的人和我一样热爱这个国家，”他说。
不过，戈萨奇明确表示，公众辩论的基调——以及对暴力的拒绝——最终将决定这一制度能否延续下去。
“我们可以辩论，可以持不同意见，”他说，“但我们必须能够以尊重彼此的方式进行。”
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布雷安娜·德皮施是福克斯新闻数字频道的全国政治记者，负责报道特朗普政府，重点关注司法部、联邦调查局及其他全国性新闻。她此前曾在《华盛顿观察家报》和《华盛顿邮报》报道全国政治，作品还发表在《政客杂志》《科罗拉多公报》等媒体。您可以通过Breanne.Deppisch@fox.com向布雷安娜发送爆料线索，或在X平台关注她@breanne_dep。
Justice Neil Gorsuch breaks silence on violent threats against judiciary, Supreme Court leaks
May 6, 2026 8:00pm EDT / Fox News
The justice stressed the balance between transparency and confidentiality in Supreme Court deliberations
By Breanne Deppisch Fox News
Gorsuch breaks silence on threats to judiciary: ‘Violence is never the answer’
Justice Neil Gorsuch discusses the rise in violence against the judiciary, the ripple effect he fears from more Supreme Court leaks.
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch spoke out against rising threats targeting judges, breaking his silence on violence against the judiciary in a sit-down interview with Fox News Digital.
Gorsuch’s remarks come amid heightened security concerns for members of the Supreme Court after the 2022 leak of the court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which sparked protests outside justices’ homes and intensified fears about their safety, particularly after the attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Gorsuch emphasized that the current environment — marked by increasingly heated public discourse and breaches of court confidentiality — poses broader risks to the institution.
“We have to be able to hear one another,” Gorsuch said. “And violence is never the answer.”
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Supreme Court justices pose for their official group portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.(Alex Wong/Getty Images)
His remarks come as members of the federal judiciary have faced heightened security risks in recent years, including an assassination attempt targeting Kavanaugh during the lead-up to the Dobbs decision, when the court overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the federal constitutional right to abortion.
On June 8, 2022, Nicholas John Roske, a transgender individual from Simi Valley, California, traveled to Kavanaugh’s Maryland home with a gun and ammunition in a checked suitcase. Authorities later found a gun, tactical knife, zip ties, duct tape, a hammer, crowbar, lock-pick tools and other items in Roske’s belongings, according to the Department of Justice.
After seeing deputy U.S. Marshals outside the home, Roske walked away and called 911, telling a dispatcher about having homicidal and suicidal thoughts and had come from California to kill a Supreme Court justice.
Before the incident, Roske searched online for information about how to harm people — one search read “Does twisting or dragging a knife cause more damage” — and expressed a desire to affect the outcome of the Dobbs decision. Roske was sentenced to eight years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for the assassination attempt.
Though Gorsuch stopped short of weighing in directly on specific incidents, he stressed to Fox News Digital that maintaining civil discourse and institutional boundaries are critical to preserving the Supreme Court’s role and the independence of the federal judiciary.
“There’s a balance between transparency and the confidentiality in our work, right?” Gorsuch said. “I mean, it’s wonderful, I think, that we have the opportunity for people to listen in to our own arguments. You can listen to every word uttered in arguments from the bench today, in real time.
“At the same time, we also have to be able to talk with one another privately and discuss our views candidly around the conference table.”
Gorsuch suggested these breaches of confidentiality — including the high-profile Dobbs leak, and more recent leaks of confidential Supreme Court memos exchanged by justices in 2016 — risk further eroding public trust in the judiciary.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch speaks at the Reagan Library on May 5, 2026, in Simi Valley, Calif.(Getty Images)
“You think about how robust our system is, where everybody, all factions come into making laws,” Gorsuch said. “That makes our decisions wiser than you are ever gonna get in a dictatorship or a monarchy or an oligarchy. They’re much more fragile, aren’t they?”
At the same time, Gorsuch underscored that maintaining boundaries for the court’s internal deliberations is critical, particularly after high-profile leaks.
“There’s a balance between transparency on the one hand … and confidentiality in our deliberations,” he said. “You can read every word I think about a case at the end of the day. … But do we need some confidentiality? Of course.”
He warned that losing that balance could undermine both trust in the court and the ability of justices to engage in candid debate behind closed doors, a practice he noted dates back to the nation’s founding.
“The framers thought it was very important that they lock the doors when they were discussing the Constitution,” Gorsuch said, adding that James Madison later believed there “would have been no Constitution” without that privacy.
Gorsuch tied those concerns to the broader constitutional principle of judicial independence, arguing the judiciary’s role depends on its insulation from political pressure and public backlash.
“Why do we have an independent judiciary?” Gorsuch said. “The framers did not want [judges beholden to political forces]. … They said you have to have independent judges so that when you come to court, no matter how unpopular you are, you’re going to get fair, neutral application of the law.”
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Despite ideological differences among the justices, Gorsuch said there remains a shared respect for the Constitution, a dynamic he suggested is essential in an era of growing polarization.
“When I sit around the table with my colleagues, and we disagree, the one thing I know is that the person across from me loves this country … as much as I do,” he said.
Still, Gorsuch made clear that the tone of public debate — and the rejection of violence — will ultimately shape whether that system endures.
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“We can debate, we can disagree,” he said. “But we have to be able to do it in a way that respects one another.”
Ashley Oliver and Jake Gibson contributed to this report.
Breanne Deppisch is a national politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering the Trump administration, with a focus on the Justice Department, FBI and other national news. She previously covered national politics at the Washington Examiner and The Washington Post, with additional bylines in Politico Magazine, the Colorado Gazette and others. You can send tips to Breanne at Breanne.Deppisch@fox.com, or follow her on X at @breanne_dep.