VOA新闻杂志2022 美国参议院确认凯坦吉·布朗·杰克逊为最高法院大法官

The United States Senate has confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme¹ Court.

美国参议院确认凯坦吉·布朗·杰克逊为最高法院大法官。

President Joe Biden nominated Jackson, a 51-year-old federal appeals court judge, earlier this year.

今年年初，美国总统乔·拜登提名51岁的联邦上诉法院法官杰克逊出任最高法院大法官。

She is set to become the first Black woman to serve on the high court.

她将成为最高法院第一位黑人女性大法官。

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised the vote, calling it "a wonderful day…for the Supreme Court and for the United States of America."

参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默称赞了投票结果，称对于最高法院和美利坚合众国来说，这是美好的一天。

Jackson will join the high court when Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer.

杰克逊将在大法官斯蒂芬·布雷耶今年夏天退休后加入最高法院。

She watched the vote on television with Biden at the White House on Thursday.

周四，她在白宫与拜登一起在电视上观看了确认投票。

They celebrated² after the nomination³ was approved.

在提名获得批准后，他们举行了庆祝活动。

During her Senate confirmation⁴ hearings, Jackson spoke⁵ of her parents' struggles with racial segregation⁶.

在参议院确认听证会上，杰克逊谈到了她的父母与种族隔离的斗争。

She said her "path was clearer" because of civil rights laws passed in the 1960s before she was born.

她说，因为在她出生前，在20世纪60年代通过了民权法，她的“道路更加清晰”。

She attended Harvard University in Massachusetts, worked as a public defender⁷ and was a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

她曾就读于马萨诸塞州的哈佛大学，担任过公设辩护律师，并曾是美国量刑委员会的成员。

Jackson will be the third Black person to serve on the court, after Justices Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas.

杰克逊将是继大法官瑟古德·马歇尔和克拉伦斯·托马斯之后第三位担任最高法院大法官的黑人。

She will be the fourth woman on the court of nine Justices.

她将是最高法院九位大法官中的第四位女性。

The three other women who have served are Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett.

其他三名女性大法官分别是索尼娅·索托马约尔、埃琳娜·卡根和艾米·科尼·巴雷特。

The Senate confirmed Biden's choice by a vote of 53 to 47.

参议院以53比47的投票结果确认了拜登的提名。

Three Republican Senators joined all of the Senate Democrats⁹ to confirm Jackson.

三名共和党参议员加入了所有参议院民主党人的行列，确认了杰克逊的提名。

Republican senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt¹⁰ Romney of Utah gave her their support.

缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯、阿拉斯加州参议员丽莎·穆尔科夫斯基和犹他州参议员米特·罗姆尼都支持她。

Collins said she was dissatisfied with the confirmation process.

柯林斯说，她对提名确认过程感到不满。

She called the process "broken."

她称这一过程是“不连续的”。

The court currently has six conservative members and three liberal members.

最高法院目前有6名保守派成员和3名自由派成员。

The justices have lifetime appointments.

大法官可以终身任职。

The lifetime terms are meant to ease political influence on the justices' decisions.

终身任期旨在减少政治对大法官裁决的影响。

Jackson faced many questions about her record and her ideas about the law from the Senate Judiciary committee.

参议院司法委员会对杰克逊的履历和她对法律的看法提出了许多质疑。

The committee has 11 Democrats and 11 Republicans on it.

该委员会有11名民主党人和11名共和党人。

Republicans questioned Jackson's sentencing record during her confirmation hearings.

共和党人在杰克逊的确认听证会上质疑她的判刑记录。

Several of the senators said she gave sentences below the federal guidelines for people found guilty of having illegal sexual material showing children.

几名参议员表示，她对那些非法拥有儿童色情制品的人的量刑低于联邦指导方针。

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Jackson "never got tough once in this area."

参议院少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔表示，杰克逊“在这方面从来没有强硬过”。

But supporters of Jackson said she was in line with other judges in her decisions.

但杰克逊的支持者表示，她与其他法官的决定是一致的。

Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat⁸ from New Jersey¹¹, said he felt emotional as Jackson spoke to the committee.

新泽西州民主党参议员科里·布克说，当杰克逊向委员会发表讲话时，他感到很激动。

He said he saw "my ancestors and yours" in her image.

他说他从她的形象中看到了“我的祖先和你的祖先”。

I'm Ashley Thompson.

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1 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

2 celebrated   

adj.有名的，声誉卓著的

参考例句：

• He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
• The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。

3 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

4 confirmation   

n.证实，确认，批准

参考例句：

• We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
• We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前，我们需要书面确认。

5 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

6 segregation   

n.隔离，种族隔离

参考例句：

• Many school boards found segregation a hot potato in the early 1960s.在60年代初，许多学校部门都觉得按水平分班是一个棘手的问题。
• They were tired to death of segregation and of being kicked around.他们十分厌恶种族隔离和总是被人踢来踢去。

7 defender   

n.保卫者，拥护者，辩护人

参考例句：

• He shouldered off a defender and shot at goal.他用肩膀挡开防守队员，然后射门。
• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。

8 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

9 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

11 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。