来源：《美联社新闻》
原文刊登日期：2021年11月23日
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The state of New Jersey has moved closer to withdrawing from a bi-state commission formed to monitor corruption at the New York region’s ports.
新泽西州已接近退出一个由两个州组成的委员会，该委员会旨在监督纽约地区港口的腐败情况。
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a lawsuit filed by the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor that had sought to block New Jersey’s move. If the state of New York doesn’t step in to file a legal challenge, the commission would effectively be dissolved. A spokesperson for the New York state attorney general’s office declined to comment Tuesday on whether the office was considering such an action.
美国最高法院周一拒绝审理纽约港滨水委员会提出的一项诉讼，该委员会试图阻止新泽西州的行动。如果纽约州不介入提出法律挑战，该委员会将实际上被解散。周二，纽约州总检察长办公室的发言人拒绝就该办公室是否考虑采取这一行动发表评论。
The commission was formed in the 1950s to combat entrenched organized crime influences at the ports. But in recent years, New Jersey has contended that organized crime has largely been driven out of the ports and that the commission was impeding job growth by over-regulating businesses there and making hiring more difficult. Under New Jersey’s plan, state police would take over investigating criminal activity at the ports.
该委员会成立于20世纪50年代，目的是打击在港口根深蒂固的有组织犯罪。但近年来，新泽西州坚持认为，有组织犯罪在很大程度上已经被赶出了港口，该委员会对港口的企业进行了过度监管，加大了招聘难度，从而阻碍了就业增长。根据新泽西的计划，州警察将接管调查港口的犯罪活动。
The New York-New Jersey port system, among the busiest in the country, includes container terminals in Newark, Elizabeth and Bayonne in New Jersey, and Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York. The New Jersey terminals handle the bulk of the port’s business.
纽约-新泽西港口系统是美国最繁忙的港口系统之一，包括新泽西州纽瓦克、伊丽莎白和巴约内的集装箱码头，以及纽约州斯塔顿岛和布鲁克林的集装箱码头。新泽西码头处理该港口的大部分业务。
“The Governor is pleased with the Supreme Court’s decision to reject the Waterfront Commission’s appeal,” Michael Zhadanovsky, a spokesperson for New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said in an email Tuesday. “The Commission has long outlived its original mission and, today, only stands as a roadblock to hiring and operations at our ports. We look forward to an orderly transition from the Commission to the New Jersey State Police.”
新泽西州州长菲尔·墨菲的发言人迈克尔·扎丹诺夫斯基周二在一封电子邮件中说：“州长对最高法院驳回滨水委员会上诉的决定感到高兴。该委员会的使命早已结束，今天，它只是我们港口招聘和运营的一个障碍。我们期待着委员会向新泽西州警察局有序过渡。”
In 2018, then-New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed legislation withdrawing New Jersey from the commission. A federal judge blocked the attempt in 2019, writing that both states would have to agree to any changes or amendments to their agreements and that corruption was still evident at the ports. But an appeals court disagreed last year and wrote that the commission’s lawsuit should be dismissed because New Jersey was protected by sovereign immunity.
2018年，当时的新泽西州州长、共和党人克里斯·克里斯蒂签署了一项法案，让新泽西州退出该委员会。一名联邦法官在2019年阻止了这一尝试，他写道，任何对协议进行的修改或修订都必须经两州同意，而且港口的腐败现象仍然很明显。但去年一家上诉法院否决了初审联邦法院的判决，并写道，该委员会的诉讼应该被驳回，因为新泽西州受到主权豁免的保护。
In the commission’s petition to the Supreme Court in December, it contended that allowing a state to unilaterally dissolve a bi-state compact that essentially has the status of federal law would undermine the government’s ability to get states to enter into such agreements in the future.
该委员会在去年12月向最高法院提交的申诉书中声称，允许一个州单方面解除实质上具有联邦法律地位的两州协议，将削弱政府在未来让各州签订此类协议的能力。