时代周刊:终审法院(2)

The Biden campaign's legal team has been sanguine¹ about the deluge² to come. "Let me tell you this: if you go to the Supreme³ Court today, drive around the building, you will not see Donald Trump⁴, and you will not see his lawyers," says Bob Bauer, former White House counsel under Barack Obama and a senior adviser⁵ to the Biden campaign. "He's not going to the Supreme Court of the United States to get the voting to stop."

拜登竞选团队的法律团队对即将到来的“洪水”持乐观态度。鲍勃·鲍尔曾是巴拉克·奥巴马政府的白宫顾问，也是拜登竞选团队的高级顾问，他说：“让我来告诉你：如果你今天去最高法院，开车绕着大楼转，你不会看到唐纳德·特朗普，也不会看到他的律师，他是不会去美国最高法院阻止投票的。”

But at least some top Republicans, including Tom Spencer, who worked for George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore⁶, the case that decided⁷ the 2000 election, foresee the legal wrangling⁸ ending at the court, where Trump has appointed three of the nine Justices. He predicts that the outcome may hinge on three Justices—Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett—all of whom, like Spencer, worked on Bush's team two decades ago. In September, Trump said he wanted Barrett installed on the high court before the election to ensure a full bench to decide election disputes. "The big issue of course is how is Justice Barrett going to rule," Spencer says.

但至少有一些共和党高层会去，包括曾在布什诉戈尔一案中(决定了2000年的大选结果)为乔治·W·布什工作过的汤姆·斯宾塞。他预测法律纠纷将在最高法院结束，特朗普已经任命了9名大法官中的3名，结果可能取决于三位法官——布雷特·卡瓦诺、约翰·罗伯茨和艾米·科尼·巴雷特——他们都和斯宾塞一样，在20年前为布什的团队工作过。今年9月，特朗普表示希望在选举前在高等法院任命巴雷特，以此确保能够有一个完整的法官席来裁决选举纠纷。“当然，最大的问题是巴雷特法官将如何裁决，”斯宾塞说。

The consequences of the coming legal battles may extend beyond who becomes the next President of the United States. The litiation could test Americans' confidence in the electoral process, shake their faith in the judiciary as an impartial⁹ arbiter¹⁰ of U.S. law, and further divide an already polarized nation. "Make no mistake: our democracy is being tested in this election," Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said Nov. 4. "This is a stress test of the ideals upon which this country was founded."

即将到来的法律之战的后果可能会超出“谁将成为美国下一任总统”这一问题。这场诉讼可能会考验美国人对选举过程的信心，动摇他们对司法机构作为美国法律公正仲裁者的信心，并进一步分化这个已经两极分化的国家。宾夕法尼亚州州长汤姆·沃尔夫11月4日说：“毫无疑问，我们的民主正在这次选举中遭受考验，这是对美国建国理想的一次压力测试。”

Lawyers for both the Trump and Biden campaigns have been preparing for this moment for months. With backing from deep-pocketed donors¹¹, as well as the Republican and Democratic National Committees, each has amassed¹² an army of top-tier lawyers and legal experts who have been deployed¹³ at strategic outposts around the country. In the months before the election, lawyers for various Democratic and Republican entities¹⁴ filed more than 400 election-related lawsuits¹⁵, putting the 2020 race on track to be the most litigated in history.

特朗普和拜登的竞选律师已经为这一时刻准备了数月。在财力雄厚的捐助者以及共和党和民主党全国委员会的支持下，两党都积累了一支由顶级律师和法律专家组成的队伍，他们被部署在全国各地的战略前站。在大选前的几个月里，民主党和共和党各机构的律师提起了400多起与选举有关的诉讼，使2020年大选有望成为历史上诉讼最多的一次大选。

Some of these decisions may have made a post–Election Day showdown more likely by narrowing the margin¹⁶ between Biden and Trump. On Oct. 26, the Supreme Court upheld Wisconsin's ballot-receipt deadline. Appeals courts similarly ruled in favor of shorter ballot-receipt deadlines in Georgia and Michigan. The Supreme Court decision in the Wisconsin case "unquestionably" made the margin closer, says Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause in the state. "There are probably thousands of absentee ballots¹⁷ that will be (arriving) in the next few days." When the deadline was extended during Wisconsin's primary this year, the state's election commission said it resulted in an additional 79,000 ballots being counted.

其中一些决定可能会缩小拜登和特朗普之间的差距，从而更有可能导致大选后的摊牌。10月26日，最高法院维持了威斯康辛州的收票截止日期。乔治亚州和密歇根州的上诉法院也做出了类似的裁决，支持缩短收到选票的最后期限。威斯康星州“共同事业”的执行董事杰伊·赫克表示，最高法院在威斯康辛州一案中的判决“毫无疑问”拉近了差距。“未来几天可能会有数千张缺席选票送到。”今年威斯康辛州的初选延长了最后期限，该州选举委员会表示，这导致多出了79000张需要清点的选票。

1 sanguine   

adj.充满希望的，乐观的，血红色的

参考例句：

• He has a sanguine attitude to life.他对于人生有乐观的看法。
• He is not very sanguine about our chances of success.他对我们成功的机会不太乐观。

2 deluge   

n./vt.洪水，暴雨，使泛滥

参考例句：

• This little stream can become a deluge when it rains heavily.雨大的时候，这条小溪能变作洪流。
• I got caught in the deluge on the way home.我在回家的路上遇到倾盆大雨。

3 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。

4 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

5 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

6 gore   

n.凝血，血污；v.（动物）用角撞伤，用牙刺破；缝以补裆；顶

参考例句：

• The fox lay dying in a pool of gore.狐狸倒在血泊中奄奄一息。
• Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。

7 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

8 wrangling   

v.争吵，争论，口角( wrangle的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The two sides have spent most of their time wrangling over procedural problems. 双方大部分时间都在围绕程序问题争论不休。 来自辞典例句
• The children were wrangling (with each other) over the new toy. 孩子为新玩具（互相）争吵。 来自辞典例句

9 impartial   

adj.(in,to)公正的，无偏见的

参考例句：

• He gave an impartial view of the state of affairs in Ireland.他对爱尔兰的事态发表了公正的看法。
• Careers officers offer impartial advice to all pupils.就业指导员向所有学生提供公正无私的建议。

10 arbiter   

n.仲裁人，公断人

参考例句：

• Andrew was the arbiter of the disagreement.安德鲁是那场纠纷的仲裁人。
• Experiment is the final arbiter in science.实验是科学的最后仲裁者。

11 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 amassed   

v.积累，积聚( amass的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He amassed a fortune from silver mining. 他靠开采银矿积累了一笔财富。
• They have amassed a fortune in just a few years. 他们在几年的时间里就聚集了一笔财富。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

14 entities   

实体对像； 实体，独立存在体，实际存在物( entity的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Our newspaper and our printing business form separate corporate entities. 我们的报纸和印刷业形成相对独立的企业实体。
• The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities. 北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。

15 lawsuits   

n.诉讼( lawsuit的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Lawsuits involving property rights and farming and grazing rights increased markedly. 涉及财产权，耕作与放牧权的诉讼案件显著地增加。 来自辞典例句
• I've lost and won more lawsuits than any man in England. 全英国的人算我官司打得最多，赢的也多，输的也多。 来自辞典例句

16 margin   

n.页边空白；差额；余地，余裕；边，边缘

参考例句：

• We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
• The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。

17 ballots   

n.投票表决( ballot的名词复数 )；选举；选票；投票总数v.（使）投票表决( ballot的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• They're counting the ballots. 他们正在计算选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory. 他们操纵选票的消息使他们在选举中获得的胜利大为减色。 来自《简明英汉词典》