2026年4月15日 美国东部时间下午5:24 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
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更新于2026年4月15日 美国东部时间下午6:36
发布于2026年4月15日 美国东部时间下午5:24
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索托马约尔就针对卡瓦诺的移民问题公开言论致歉
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索托马约尔就针对卡瓦诺的移民问题公开言论致歉
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美国最高法院大法官索尼娅·索托马约尔周三罕见地公开向一位同事致歉，称她此前对大法官布雷特·卡瓦诺在早期一起移民案件中的判决意见的批评是不当的。
“近日在堪萨斯大学法学院的一场活动中，我提到了与一位同事在先前案件中的分歧，但发表了不合适的言论，”索托马约尔在一份声明中说道。“我为自己造成伤害的言论感到后悔，已经向我的同事致歉。”
索托马约尔发表这份声明之前，她上周在堪萨斯州发表了相关言论，批评卡瓦诺在一起备受关注的涉及美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）巡逻的紧急移民案件中的协同意见——这是大法官之间极为罕见的针对个人的直接评论。
节点运行失败 2021年4月23日，塞缪尔·阿利托大法官在华盛顿特区最高法院大法官集体合影中就座。埃琳·沙夫/ pooled图片/盖蒂图片社 特朗普回顾露丝·巴德·金斯伯格去世对最高法院的影响，同时讨论塞缪尔·阿利托的未来 阅读时长：4分钟
大法官们——尤其是最终持不同意见的大法官——时常会批评另一方同事对案件的论证框架。但保守派和自由派大法官——包括索托马约尔——也经常会谈及最高法院内部的礼让原则，以及九名大法官即便在诸多备受关注的案件中存在激烈分歧，仍能私下和睦相处。
这也让索托马约尔此次言论的基调显得格外出人意料。
“在那起案件中，我的同事写道，你知道，那只是临时停靠，”据彭博社报道，索托马约尔当时说道。“这话出自一位父母是专业人士的人之口。他可能根本不认识任何按小时计薪的劳动者。”
该活动结束后，美国有线电视新闻网曾联系索托马约尔和卡瓦诺置评。周三针对索托马约尔的致歉声明，卡瓦诺未立即回应后续置评请求。
作为最高法院资深自由派大法官，索托马约尔上周谈及了9月初的一份判决意见：最高法院支持唐纳德·特朗普总统推动的一项举措，允许移民执法官员继续在南加州开展被批评者称为“漫游巡逻”的行动，而下级法院认为这类巡逻很可能违反了美国宪法第四修正案。
最高法院多数派未就该判决给出解释，当时三名自由派大法官对此提出了强烈异议。
但支持特朗普的保守派大法官卡瓦诺在协同意见中解释了自己的立场。他表示，执法人员考量的各项因素“综合起来至少可以构成对美国境内非法居留的合理怀疑”。这些因素可能包括某人明显的种族特征、语言，或是其身处农场、公交车站等特定地点的情况。
节点运行失败 2025年7月31日，布雷特·卡瓦诺大法官在密苏里州堪萨斯城举行的第八巡回法院司法会议小组讨论会上发言。尼克·英厄姆/美联社/档案照片 卡瓦诺因声称美国人可就与移民海关执法局的 encounter 遭遇提起诉讼而遭反弹 阅读时长：6分钟
“需要明确的是，仅凭明显的种族特征无法构成合理怀疑；但根据本院关于移民拦截的判例法，它在与其他显著因素一并考量时，可以成为‘相关因素’，”卡瓦诺写道。
“重要的是，”卡瓦诺补充道，“合理怀疑仅意味着移民官员可以短暂拦截个人并询问其移民身份。”
自由派团体聚焦卡瓦诺的协同意见，将案件中涉及的移民拦截行动称为“卡瓦诺式拦截”。移民权益组织表示，这类拦截往往比这位大法官在判决意见中描述的时间更长、侵扰性更强。
本文已更新补充更多细节。
Sonia Sotomayor apologizes for ‘hurtful’ public comments about Brett Kavanaugh on immigration
2026-04-15 5:24 PM ET / CNN
By John Fritze
Updated Apr 15, 2026, 6:36 PM ET
PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2026, 5:24 PM ET
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Sotomayor apologizes for public comments about Kavanaugh on immigration
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Sotomayor apologizes for public comments about Kavanaugh on immigration
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a highly unusual public apology to a colleague Wednesday, saying her criticism of Justice Brett Kavanaugh for his writing in an earlier immigration case was unfair.
“At a recent appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law, I referred to a disagreement with one of my colleagues in a prior case, but I made remarks that were inappropriate,” Sotomayor said in a statement. “I regret my hurtful comments. I have apologized to my colleague.”
Sotomayor’s statement followed remarks she made last week in Kansas in which she criticized Kavanaugh for his concurring opinion in a high-profile emergency immigration case dealing with ICE patrols — an exceedingly rare and personal comment directed at one justice by another.
节点运行失败 Justice Samuel Alito sits during a group photo of the justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2021. Erin Schaff/Pool/Getty Images Trump recalls how Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death affected the Supreme Court as he discusses Samuel Alito’s future 4 min read
Justices, particularly those who wind up dissenting, often snip at how their colleagues on the other side of an opinion frame an issue. But both conservative and liberal justices – including Sotomayor – also regularly discuss the comity on the court and how the nine justices get along personally even as they vehemently disagree in many high-profile cases.
That is what made the tone of Sotomayor’s remarks surprising.
“I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops,” Sotomayor said, according to a Bloomberg report. “This is from a man whose parents were professionals. And probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour.”
CNN had reached out to Sotomayor and Kavanaugh for comment after the event. Kavanaugh did not immediately respond to a follow-up request for comment about Sotomayor’s apology on Wednesday.
Sotomayor, the court’s senior liberal, was speaking last week about an opinion in early September in which the court backed President Donald Trump’s push to allow immigration enforcement officials to continue what critics describe as “roving patrols” in Southern California that lower courts said likely violated the Fourth Amendment.
The court’s majority did not offer an explanation for its decision in that case, which came over a sharp dissent from the three liberal justices.
But Kavanaugh, a member of the conservative wing who sided with Trump, wrote in a concurrence to explain his thinking. He said the factors the agents were considering “taken together can constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States.” Those factors could include a person’s apparent ethnicity, language or their presence at a particular location, such as a farm or a bus stop.
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“To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this court’s case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a ‘relevant factor’ when considered along with other salient factors,” Kavanaugh wrote.
“Importantly,” Kavanaugh added, “reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status.”
Liberal groups have zeroed in on Kavanaugh’s concurrence and have dubbed the immigration encounters at issue in the case as “Kavanaugh stops.” Immigrant advocacy groups have said the stops are often far lengthier and more intrusive than the justice made them seem in his opinion.
This story has been updated with additional details.